Last summer, the Florence Nightingale Museum in London announced a holiday program for children. It ran like this: “Daily-changing drop-in activities include crafting a pattern lantern like the ...

It is an established custom with the Albion to make to each of its subscribers a New-Year's girt of an Engraving. Many of these have been among the finest works of art of their kind in the country.

A family album featuring portraits of The Lady With The Lamp, uncovered after 100 years, will go on display for the first time at a Florence Nightingale exhibition. Nightingale’s aunt, Ann ...

Florence Nightingale was born into a prominent, wealthy family in Victorian England. She shocked the family first by becoming a nurse and then by going to Turkey to care for soldiers injured in ...

Adding to the Florence Nightingale family connection, ... Florence Nightingale: A Living Portrait runs until 3 November 2024. More information at www.cromfordmills.org.uk.

She had three Unitarian grandparents, but her father, William, was patron of the living at the church near the family’s Hampshire home, and she was baptised in the Anglican church in Florence. ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives.

They measure just 5.9 x 5.9 centimeters (2.3 x 2.3 inches) and were taken around 1910. Nightingale died on August 13 of that year, at age 90. “The family history behind these photographs leads ...