Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive. Her campaign for ...

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

All Crimean War hospitals were ghastly ... wife and four children and has been turning the house into a kind of Florence Nightingale museum. At the war’s end, Nightingale, who shunned fame ...

Her work not only transformed battlefield medicine during the Crimean War but reshaped global healthcare systems. Born into privilege in 1820, Florence Nightingale chose a life of grit and grit ...

For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous ... A little over a year later, she was on her way to the Crimean War. In October 1854, Nightingale brought 38 female nurses under ...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious ... She was serving in the Crimean War, where Britain fought alongside France against the Russian invasion of the Ottoman ...

The Crimean War and 'The lady with the lamp' Florence Nightingale is best known for leading a group of 38 nurses to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War in 1854. When Nightingale and ...

Florence Nightingale turned her findings into a simple diagram to help people better understand her findings After the Crimean War ended in 1856, Florence was desperate to find out what exactly ...

In Melissa Pritchard’s biographical novel, Florence Nightingale, the fabled “lady with the lamp” who brought women and the nursing profession to the front for the first time during the Crimean War, ...