Florence Nightingale transformed chaotic, unclean hospitals and revolutionised nursing, but it’s as a carer that she is most fondly remembered. She helped save lives during a cholera epidemic ...

She became known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’. Florence Nightingale is remembered for showing people that nursing was a very important job. There was a time when, if people became ill or ...

She is the epitome of the caring, attentive nurse, but a new exhibition reveals Florence Nightingale was among the first victims ... When 16, she felt a calling from God to nursing, which provoked ...

To the Editor of the New-York Times: I am sure the women of our country will be glad to know that Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ... sympathy of grief and horror" with which she contemplated the ...