Thank you to all who entered our latest book competition to win a copy of My Ancestor was a Woman at War (SOG, 2013). The winners will be announced on our Facebook page next week. The answers to the competition are: (i) Who was known as 'the lady with the lamp'? B Florence Nightingale (ii) Aethelflaed was the daughter of which famous English King? A Alfred the Great (iii) Women killed in the First World War are named on memorial screens in which cathedral? C York Minster. Mary Seacole (c.1805-1881) Florence Nightingale (who was born this week 1820, 12th May) features in the book as the founder of army nursing. Her innovative work in the Crimean War of 1854-56 led to the formalisation of nursing as a profession, but there were other women present in the region who took an alternative approach to tending the sick and wounded soldiers. One of the most well-known is Mary Seacole, who was obliged to arrange her own travel to the Crimea, where she op...