Nightingale wished to become a nurse but her family disapproved. At the time it was rare for wealthy women to work, especially in a job that was widely thought to be for people in a lower social ...

The work would be later romanticized in The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari, a large canvas painted by Jerry Barrett in 1857 that today hangs in the ...

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

Florence Nightingale, who was known as the Lady with ... said it was important that these two people were remembered. "Their pioneering work towards the end of the 19th Century saw our city ...