For a long time, much too long, Nightingale struggled against her family: its upper-middle-class complacency, its conventionality.

Gena Gorrell talked with students at the Danilack Education Centre in Toronto, Canada, about her book [Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale], published by Tundra Books. Florence ...

Elizabeth Gaskell, the novelist and family friend who visited Lea Hurst in 1854, observed that Nightingale appeared far more interested in humanity in general than individuals.

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.

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.

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 ...

Adding to the Florence Nightingale family connection, the financial support of her great-uncle, Peter Nightingale, was key to enabling Sir Richard Arkwright to develop Cromford Mills.

A NEW exhibition examining changing perceptions of Florence Nightingale opens on Saturday at Cromford Mills, Derwent Valley, in Derbyshire. Nightingale spent most of her childhood near by at Lea Hurst ...

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale are among a number of items related to the famed English nurse going up for auction in London.

Lavish furniture and ornate paintings from a manor house in Hertfordshire have gone on sale for thousands of pounds. Items include four paintings of the Arkwright family worth £230,000.