Heroines of History.

Dawn Earnshaw Reporting for the National Times.

Mary seacole.

I am reporting to the public as a writer for the work on individual characters that were well known in the war,who but became lost in time, and their work becomes unknown.

My job as a reporter for the National Times is a demanding job and 24/7 is working to bring history back to life.

Reporting in War Drawn Countries but as a Senior Researcher and Reporter you tend to forget the risks you take, and being put in prison, this job takes guts and determination to bring Truth to the Public

Ethnic diversity is nothing new in Britain, people with different histories, culture, beliefs and language have been coming here for centuries.

Yet the presence of women among ethnic minorities have been hidden, their achievements rarely remembered, even they have been here a long time, and vital to many sectors of Great Britain - from industry and the economy to the armed forces and politics; from art, culture to health and education.

Individually, ethnic minority women have been pioneers in their own right, pushing back boundaries and braking racial gender barriers.

Collectively, they have provided invaluable, and often unrecognised labour, working in services , and industries , such as textile, retail, health and education.

Often, too, they have been at the forefront of the persistence of equality and social justice, the contribution made it British Society, by ethnic minority woman throughout history, they are many more.

Mary Seacole a nurse during the Crimean war in 1853 were celebrated in her lifetime, like me she was a bold, political and a nurse and Soldier when needed

But later she got all forgotten, so as a reporter in my past I would be reborn as Mary.

Born in Jamaica in 1805 to a black boarding home and a Scottish Soldier , Mary was the last person to enter Sebastopol,when it fell to the Russians arriving laden with wine, bandages, and food, for the wounded .

W H Russell organised a four day music festival, in honour of her at the Royal Surrey Gardens, in Kensington, with 1,000 performers and nine tarry bands .

In recent years her legacy as the first Black Woman to make her mark in British Public, has been followed by thousands of black nurses - she was oftentimes compared to Mary Nightingale to the Crimean War.

Noor Inayat Khan

Was the only Asian to serve with the special operations Executive during the second world war known as special agent Madeline, she operated in Paris in 1943 but was betrayed and arrested by the Gastapo .

After a year in prison she was sent to Dachau Prison - Concentration Camp and shot.

She was Postumosly awarded the croix de Guerre and the George Cross.

Khan was just one of two and half million Indians who enrolled in the armed forces, during the second world war 10,000 of these formed the Indian Auxiliary Corps.

As a historical reporter I write to bring you lost and forgotten heros.

A 15th Century weaver at hwr loom in tothe 15th century, woollen cloth made up nighty percent of Englands and many of the countries skilled weavers were migrants from the Low Countries.

Many craftworkers in England at that time were migrants who came here to fill the skills gap required, it was estimated there were 16,000 foreigners in England, around one percentage of the population.

We have been taking refugees for many workers and local people- as the first place years who come to Britain for all different reasons, war, famine, slave labour.

Four months ago I watched - along with hundreds of journalists, volunteer as the first plane hit, we had Kosavan fugees arriving at Leesd, Bradford airport .That day and the weeks following I will never forget the warmth and depth of feelings that greeted in the UK .

Politicians and journalists fell over themselves to be a part of that welcome. Butbh three months later a fight at the fairgrounds in Dover resulted in a stream of anti~ refugees rhetorical anger and abuse between English people and the refuges . This is 2001 I am currently in reporting to you. Do not let history in war and violence repeat itself.