Mary Seacole, Revisited
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
The History Chicks | QCODE
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
For International Nurses Day, we're revisiting our coverage of Mary Seacole. While, technically, she wasn't a nurse, she was very much a brave medical caregiver, a "doctress," an entrepreneur, and one heck of a jam-maker who served those fighting at the front of the Crimean War (and so much more.) If you are interested in a more directly related nurse episode, we recommend our coverage of Florence Nightingale (as well as several others, mentioned in this episode.)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, it's Susan. This week on May 12, 2021, it is International Nurses Day. |
| 0:14.0 | International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on Florence Nightingale's birthday. |
| 0:20.0 | We did cover Florence in episode 137 and we do always encourage you to go back and listen to that, |
| 0:25.0 | but we thought she was an obvious choice for a revisit. And sometimes we don't like to go with the obvious choice. |
| 0:32.0 | So we got to thinking who else could be covered if it wasn't Florence Nightingale for International Nurses Day? |
| 0:38.0 | Lydia Pinkham? Sure, she's episode 126. She was related to medicine, Clara Barton, episode 14. |
| 0:46.0 | I mean, maybe I guess if you turn your head sideways Marie Curie, episode 158 or Louisa May Alcott, episode 142, |
| 0:56.0 | are sort of nurse adjacent, but no, we decided to revisit Mary Seacool. |
| 1:04.0 | We covered the life of this brave woman a few years back. She was a doctorist and entrepreneur, a writer, |
| 1:10.0 | and she is very much Florence Nightingale adjacent that even had an encounter at one point in their lives. |
| 1:17.0 | There's also a movie in the works about the life of Mary Seacool. It was supposed to be released last year in 2020, |
| 1:23.0 | but obviously like a lot of things. It was delayed until this year, so we don't have a release date yet, |
| 1:31.0 | but it looks like it will be released in 2021 and we're very much looking forward to that. |
| 1:35.0 | The International Council of Nurses has given this as the theme for International Nurses Day this year. |
| 1:42.0 | Nurses, a voice to lead a vision for future healthcare. To nurses everywhere, thank you for your dedication, |
| 1:50.0 | your devotion, your skill, your intelligence, and for everything that you've done especially in this past year. |
| 1:57.0 | From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you. |
| 2:00.0 | And now on with the show! And here's your 30-second summary. |
| 2:07.0 | Mary Seacool wasn't afraid of the open ocean or a blank slate. She went towards war rather than away from it |
| 2:14.0 | and walked through discrimination as if it weren't there. She wasn't even stopped by the terrifying force of the British bureaucracy. |
| 2:22.0 | Here's a bandage for you and a hug and have another drink. Won't you my son? Because Mother Seacool is going to make it all better. |
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