William Howard Russell
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Sir William Howard Russell, was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the
William Howard Russell, ca. 1854
Display at the Frontline Club featuring the boots of William Howard Russell
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Mary Seacole
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Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in
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…and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports. The Crimean medical care, shelter and protection of all ranks by Mary Seacole was also publicised by Russell and by other contemporary journalists, rescuing her from bankruptcy. Russell was described by one of the soldiers on the…
Seacole, c. 1850
Seacole was bankrupt on her return to London. Queen Victoria's nephew Count Gleichen (above) had become a friend of Seacole's in Crimea. He supported fund-raising efforts on her behalf.
Seacole, depicted as an admirer of Punch, along with her British Crimean War patients in "Our Own Vivandière", Punch, 30 May 1857
One of two known photographs of Seacole, taken for a carte de visite by Maull & Company in London (c. 1873)