In 2007, Mary Seacole was introduced to the UK National Curriculum. Before this, her life went largely unrecognised, and only now is interest in her beginning to resurface.
Trailblazers
Nellie Bly – Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
When Jules Verne penned 'Around the World in Eighty Days', no-one could have imagined that it would be a woman who broke Fogg's fictitious record. Nellie Bly, never one to shirk at a challenge, took on the task in 1889, emerging victorious 72 days later.