An ancient mausoleum with the largest illegal silversmithing site in Roman Britain has been discovered. Archaeologists found a huge amount of litharge -
<p>Helen Rappaport's biography of Seacole began with a fortuitously discovered portrait, and pushed past the respectability-driven narrative she presented of her own life. </p>
Scholarly biographer Helen Rappaport explores the life of Mary Seacole in a new book. The Jamaican nurse sailed across the world to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefields of the Crimean War.