BOOKS & PODCASTS
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
By Helen Rappaport Simon & Schuster, £20, hardback, 416 pages
The exploits of British-Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole during the Crimean War of the 1850s were much lauded – indeed, as author Helen Rappaport notes, they made her the most famous black woman in the British empire. Yet, thanks to
