Horrible Histories - Mary Seacole & Florence Nightingale

[JSAclub3]

Ooh and how about getting u in an historical skech show for the bbc

It any good

It ain't bad. ............Wollap!!!!

[dukes0916]

Simon Is ++ Good! he's right on the money (or, 'spot-on' to my friends accross the pond!) in whatever character he portays! & is it just me... or does he remind anyone else of a young Benny Hill?

[FrankIeroiscute]

I told Ben about reading the artical about Tooty's wedding and wished him luck and again he didn't reply :'(

[FrankIeroiscute]

Why does he have to say Wallop all the time.

[BReveningstar]

2:42

best line ever! lampenicus

[darkangel25567]

i love simon as cliff whiteley

[rycka1983]

Crew of this show are doing great work.

[FrankIeroiscute]

I love Cliff Whiteley

[athenaloca]

¡wallop!

[Alizastack]

1:06 LOL falewence nettingel

[TigressWhite]

Shut it, lampy knickers!

[lexiegreysanatomy]

WALLOP!

[googoojnr]

3:00

Best line in whole thing

[schizoidboy]

Reminds me of the ride of Paul Revere. There were several other riders as well as Paul and at one point Paul Revere lost his horse to the British. The others were less well known because of a Longfellow poem which exclusively told of Revere.

[Britain337]

black person is not famous

[eik200I]

Nightingale is worst from Mary Seacole shes really beter than Nightingale

[missiwonderwhy]

I did not know dat -3 xxx

[MultiBelle22]

Lampy-Knickers! LOL!

[BurntToastjkl]

SHUT IT LAMPY KNICKERS!

[nicnoc1976]

@GrumpyMeldrew Very good comment!

[GrumpyMeldrew]

Both Mary and Florence represent the two sides to nursing. Florence the administrator and Mary the Carer. A combo of the two could lead to the best nursing in the world.

[Rebelcommander6]

Better line:

Seacole: It any good?

Whiteley: Its...... Horrible... wallop!

[glpl111]

Both were heros stop hating on Florence guys.

[cookiemonster5is]

1:06 best bit florence nightingale

[missiwonderwhy]

Florence you bitch lol

[oliviargn]

SHUT IT LAMPY NICKERS

I LOVE DAT!

[zomisonful]

WALLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zomisonful]

the woman who played mary seacole is from hotel trubble

[applyipod]

i did a exam on mary and florence and i learnt a lot about them both and what mary seacle did was better for the soilders but because she was black she was remember less :'(

[SeraphimSound]

SHUT IT LAMPY-NICKERS!!!!!

[Painfullslice101]

Wollop!

[theanglez86]

Telling it haaaaaw it wasn't....

[TheHHAddict]

Proper Jamacian! Like my uncle!

PON de battlefield!

I love it!

[12PixieDust]

WOLLOP!!! :D gets me everytime XD xxx

[nicnoc1976]

@Spieldamelenium Both did amazing work, just one was remembered more than the other.

[EPICMuffinMan]

WOLLOP! *ding*

[rubymoonwolf]

70% of Nightingales patients died plus she turned down seacole when she asked for a job. Mary Seacole actually cured most of her patients and made her medicines from scratch not only was Mary funded very little but she also had to work a lot harder because of her race and she made it to the top! Unfortunately when kids do assemblys or pupils study the crimean war Mary seems to have been forgotten and it REALLY p*sses me off! Because to me Mary was the real hero of the war. BELIEVE IT!

[ErinC918]

"Shut it, Lampy Knickers!" ... PRICELESS!

[RaRaCleopatra]

RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST I HATE U FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE U SUCK RACIST COW! STUPID GIRL STUPID STUPID STUPID GIRL FLORENCE IDIOT

[dragatus]

Love the ending.

"How would you feel about being featured in a historical scetch show for the BBC?" "It any good?" "It ain't bad!"

[Katsumerisfun]

A DOCTOR SPEAKING PATWA! NOW THATS SOMETHING YOU NEVER EVER SEE! I WANT ONE!

[nicnoc1976]

@GeishaShattori That's Dominique Moore. She's in quite a few Horrible Histories sketches. She's lovely. This is not her real accent of course! x

[GeishaShattori]

The actress playing Mary Seacole is so cute! I love her accent! :D

[jasmineb226]

Wallop

[Bacon679]

@MissChanelNo19 DOUBLE WALLOP

[Dim4323]

Nice one cliff.

[n140ethan]

Press pause and type in these numbers: 0 = Vile Victorians Tune 1 = Cliff saying "EH!" 2 = Woman making a quiet noise 3 = Cliff shifting in his seat 4 = Nightingale blinking repeatedly 5 = "Me father was from scotland!" 6 = WOW! 7 = A rap from seacole 8 = Wierd head movement from nightingale 9 = "We'll get you a statue"

[n140ethan]

at 0:15 she can't find the handle.. LOL

[xUniqueInManyWays]

We had to research and wrote a whole page about Mary in primary !

[snowbarbieblue]

"Shut it, Lampy-knickers!" 2:42 Hahaha......

[Bacon679]

WALLUP!!!

[ilovenoelfieldingxx]

@mcveagh1 yh :)

[SausageDogss]

"Did you really invent the pie-chart?" "yes" "did not know dat!" love it :{)

[jenlowe0010]

SHAAHT IT, LAMPY-KNICKERS!

[theanglez86]

alright ladies, chill aaaahhhh-out

[BabyDBoom]

yeah, but if Mary Seacole was given the chance, government and media support and her work ethic wasn't based on racism, she would have also made as much improvements as Florence Nighntigale. It's just so unfair, now people are noticing her. what a load of rubbish. She was more practical, but i guess it's in the past now

[GirlWithBlondeHair]

horrible History! my little sister loves it :')

[colleenbelle]

Florence Nightingale did most of her good work after the crimean war didn't she? I'm sure QI said that her hospitals had an unusually high mortality rate, so much so, that she felt terrible about it and worked really hard to establish heigene standards - but only after the war. ??? On another note- how the hell do you spell heigene?

[LynchMuK]

@colleenbelle It was down to the government introducing a sanitary comission to clean up the hospitals, this was what made death rates lower from 42% to 2%

[zoetoaster1995]

@colleenbelle i watched that QI too. When she got to the hospital, the death rates actually increased to start off with! However, this doesn't change that she gave a big contribution to medicicine and nursing after.

[dim432]

WALLOP!!

yeah we never heard of Mary seacole wasnt in the history books and marry was about having British nurses. and she has a Statue in london

[JoeRoss1993]

WHALLOP!!!

[solay78]

@JoeRoss1993 Shhhuttit lampy knickers!

[Elizabeththegreatest]

It's not fair that poor Mary Seacole got the shaft just because she was black, she did just as much good as Florence Nightingale!

[nicnoc1976]

@Elizabeththegreatest I think she did get some recognition at the time but seems to have been somewhat whitewashed out of the history books. Florence Nightingale acknowledged her work but was a bit puritanical about the hotels and establishments Seacole set up that served alcohol. Apparently though, Nightingale turned out to be one of the anonymous donors to Mary's testimonial fund when she was declared bankrupt.

[MrCagivaman]

@nicnoc1976 Yes, she set up what was called "the British Hotel'" and they did serve alcohol as she was actually a vitialer, ie like a shop, but due to it's location, clean drinking water was hard to get, so people drunk alcohol instead. I agree with what you say about F.N. but she was in Scutari, 100 miles from the front in Turkey. Mary Seacole was right there and visiting the wounded where they lay.

[321XbethX123]

@nicnoc1976 lol "whitewashed". thats just a tad ironic...

[nicnoc1976]

@321XbethX123 Was deliberate. x

[chykim1]

@nicnoc1976 o wow i never knew that...thanx

[MultiBelle22]

@Elizabeththegreatest It wasn't just because she was black - it was because she supposedly wasn't British - although since her father was from Scotland, she was technically half British so it should have counted