On Florence Nightingale’s birthday and International Nurse’s Day, ... she was lauded as a national hero and showered with awards and medals including a jewel from Queen Victoria.

The Florence Nightingale Museum in London, devoted to the pioneering 19th-century nurse, is closing its doors, indefinitely.The museum director, David Green, describes the plan as “hibernation ...

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.

In 1854, Florence Nightingale took 38 volunteer nurses to the British base hospital at Scutari in modern-day Istanbul. ... and war correspondents helped turn her into a Victorian hero.

Britain’s Florence Nightingale was a nurse who defied the expectations of her era, in her pursuit of a career in health care and in her work to make improvements that saved hundreds of lives. As ...

Nightingale implemented the practices that worked well in her training school for nursing and Scutari hospital. Letters show that Nightingale objected to nuns’ trying to convert soldiers on their ...

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale are among a number of items related to the famed English nurse going up for auction in London. The small, sepia images were taken ...

A new Interactive Florence Nightingale exhibition is coming to Derbyshire, designed to show you a side of the historical figure you haven't seen before. The exhibition “A living portrait” will ...