Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.

Update – 20 May 2008: since this press release was posted the transmission date for Florence Nightingale has gone back to Week 23 2008 (31 May-6 June 2008). This Easter, BBC One presents ...

Nightingale, also known as “the lady with the lamp,” rose to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War (1853-1856), in which she supervised care for ...

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was born in Florence, Italy, to an affluent British family. From a young age she was interested in philanthropy, and by the time she was 16, she ...

The BBC has been accused of “insulting” the achievements of Florence Nightingale, after inaccurately showing her racially discriminate against fellow nurse Mary Seacole in a Horrible Histories ...

Whether it?s the peal of bells over London celebrating the Allied victory over Rommel?s Afrika Corps, a church lady becoming warm (in more ways than one) with religious fervor, or the sensation of ...

Sharon and Russ Arrowsmith tied the knot at Florence Nightingale Hospice in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 13 days before his death aged 68. Hospice staff helped them make the wedding arrangements.

TODAY is International Nurses Day, celebrated each year on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth on May 12, 1820. 00:01, Tue, May 12, 2015 1. The first known nurse is said to have been ...

"The night 35 people walked out was probably the best show I'll ever have," says Philip Ralph. "It was at a community centre north… ...

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: “A noble type of good / Heroic ...

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. In 1860, she established St. Thomas' Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses.