A blue plaque for Florence Nightingale has been unveiled at the site of the former Derbyshire Royal Hospital that she helped ...

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 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.

She became known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’. Florence Nightingale is remembered for showing people that nursing was a very important job. There was a time when, if people became ill or ...

Ladies bearing light. It's a familiar image — whether it's Florence Nightingale and her lamp, the Statue of Liberty and her torch, or the damsel with the beacon at the start of every Columbia ...

A roll of honour illuminated by Constance Free and bound in leather by Elizabeth Greenhill, is kept in the chapel together with a lamp used in the annual Florence Nightingale service for nurses held ...

Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on May 12—with a wreath-laying at Waterloo Place, a special version of the annual Procession of the Lamp at ...

Florence Nightingale, who was known as the Lady with the Lamp, now has a Blue Plaque in her memory at the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary site A blue plaque for Florence Nightingale has been ...