Florence Nightingale, born 200 years ago this month ... Last week we revealed how she invented the nurse’s uniform and kept an owl called Athena as a pet – today Andrew Preston explains ...

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.

“From day one of putting the uniform on, I’ve never looked back ... That early image of Florence Nightingale, tending to wounded soldiers in the darkness with her lamp, has endured for ...

Nurses uniforms from Florence Nightingale's era to the present day at The Thackray Medical Museum In Leeds. Guests were also were greeted by Mr Wilson’s Second Liners, a brass band playing club ...

Florence Nightingale was named after the city of ... You could show them a picture of a modern-day nurse in uniform. Remind them of the nurses who come in to give them their flu vaccination ...

(Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Matters Affecting the ... In 1860, Nightingale successfully advocated for the uniform collection of hospital statistics at the International Statistical Congress ...