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 ...

There weren’t too many Florences around when Miss Nightingale was born in 1820 ... after the ancient Greek name for Naples: Parthenope. Florence’s family, as well as being a bit posh, were ...

Since she published a book about Florence Nightingale in 2013, historian Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57 has spoken at numerous events for nursing students. Surprisingly, she has found that half of her ...

Pictures include Ripley Market Place in 1906, showing the Town Hall and the old Post Office ... of William Edward Nightingale, the father of nurse and medical reformer Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale is perhaps the most famous nurse ... of nurses have been rapidly changing and in many areas, the age-old conventions are being replaced by contemporary need-based considerations.