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We can do better than figures on plinths to celebrate women’s achievements

Letters: Replacing figurative statues of colonists and enslavers with more figurative statues is timid – let’s embrace new art forms instead, says Dr Wendy Osmond. Plus letters from Jean Calder, Mary Fitzpatrick, and Peter Corkill

The Guardian - UK

‘David Attenborough on a tenner’: Guardian readers’ ideas for new banknotes

Bank of England has asked public for views before first major redesign of banknotes in more than 50 years

The Guardian - UK

Historical films and TV shows are embracing diversity – but real historical voices are still overlooked

In the Disney+ television series, A Thousand Blows, Malachi Kirby plays Hezekiah Moscow, a Jamaican immigrant in London who is part of an underground boxing ring in the 1880s.

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Police investigating vandalism of Mary Seacole statue outside south London hospital

The Met are investigating the attack on the statue, thought to be the UK's first to honour a named black woman

Evening Standard

Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts

Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

The Guardian - UK

‘She campaigned tirelessly’: Guardian readers nominate Black Britons worthy of a postage stamp

After an all-star panel told us who they would celebrate to mark Black History Month, we asked readers for their suggestions

The Guardian - UK

They have all earned Britain’s thanks: 20 Black heroes who should be on a postage stamp

To mark Black History Month, we asked an all-star panel to tell us who they would celebrate for their contribution to British society

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Ten historical Black British figures who helped shaped the country

Around 75 per cent of Britons either do not know "very much" or simply "anything" about Black British history, a survey has revealed

Evening Standard

Inspirational Black British women you should know about

The Black British women who have helped shape history

Evening Standard

Mary Seacole honoured as first Jamaican-British woman on Royal Mint coin

Leading equalities campaigner says a commemorative coin is “not good enough” and her image should appear on legal tender

The Independent UK

New Royal Mint coin honours first non-British Black nurse who cared for UK soldiers in Crimean War

Mary Seacole risked her life to care for wounded British soldiers in Crimean War

The Independent UK

Royal Mint unveils coin with first non-British black woman, Mary Seacole

The 19th century Jamaican nurse overcame racism to care for British soldiers in the Crimean War

Evening Standard

Mary Seacole honoured as first non-British black woman on Royal Mint coin

Mary Seacole risked her life to care for wounded British soldiers in the Crimean War.

The Independent UK

Black History Month to celebrate women and UK’s Windrush generation

Hundreds of events lined up for October, with focus on role black women have played in shaping British history

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A history of nurses: They once had the respect they're now trying to win

In Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change the World, author Sarah DiGregorio tells how nurses had great stature centuries ago — and how they got pushed into the background.

The Guardian - UK

Andrea Levy’s notes on Mary Seacole brought to light by IT experts

The writer’s scripts for a TV series about the nurse were among those recovered from her old computer by the British Library

The Guardian - UK

What modelling King Charles’s head taught me about very public portraits – and sovereignty itself

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

Chicago Sun-Times

Frenetically paced ‘Marys Seacole’ journeys across time and place for trailblazer’s fascinating story

No matter the century or the circumstance, woman-as-caregiver is a role as old as time itself. Mary Seacole played it with historic impact.

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Daily Mirror

Black British change-makers who paved the way for others - and should be in movies

These Black British change-makers really do deserve their own movies because of all the incredible things they achieved during their lives - the boldness and courage is unbelievable

Daily Mirror

'It's time we recognise Black history is British history and MUST be taught in schools'

Today, on National Teachers’ Day, and as Black History Month begins, we are calling for the history of Black Britons to be made a mandatory part of the National Curriculum

The National (Scotland)

Fantastically great women take to the stage at the Fringe

WHEN Kate Pankhurst discovered that celebrated suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a distant cousin, she had recently graduated from an illustration…

Liverpool Echo

Blue Coat to change school house names that 'were not reflective of the modern world'

The name change process has taken place over 18 months

Daily Mirror

Half of Brits aged under 30 have no idea who Marilyn Monroe was, study finds

A survey of 2,000 Brits aged 18-30 found the younger generation are in the dark over icons including Marilyn Monroe, Virginia Woolf and Frida Kahlo - but they know everything about reality TV stars

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Jerusalem; The Corn Is Green; Marys Seacole

Spellbinding Mark Rylance returns as the anarchic Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron; Nicola Walker hits the mark in Dominic Cooke’s brilliant Emlyn Williams revival; and in praise of Mary Seacole

Evening Standard

Marys Seacole review: muddled drama takes too long to make its point

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play has a compelling and topical premise - but the result is haphazard

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