This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of legendary, world-famous nurse Florence Nightingale — who once helped battle a London cholera epidemic. So it's ironic that another pandemic, the ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – ...

What is important as historical material is being able to directly confirm from the original text how the patient's ...

When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a nurse with a lamp, comforting soldiers. Indeed, Florence is considered the mother of modern nursing. But she also made serious ...

Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86 Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet / Florence Nightingale Museum In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at a military hospital in Scutari, ...

Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and work, and shows how she grew up to become a nurse during the Crimean War ...

Last May marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. That her bicentennial fell during a worldwide pandemic is both illuminating and ironic. Nightingale’s experience as a nurse ...

A trove of photos, letters and gifts associated with Florence Nightingale just sold for £25,584 (more than $32,000) at a Roseberys auction in London. The intimate collection includes two rare unposed ...

August 13th last was 115th anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). Immortalised as the “The Lady with the Lamp” for her care of wounded soldiers in war, she left an impressive ...

Since the launch of the Florence Nightingale Digitization Project in August 2014, more than 2,000 letters written by Nightingale have been digitized and added to a comprehensive online database. BU’s ...