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 ...

Santa Filomena ,” which he wrote for The Atlantic ’s inaugural issue, in November 1857, attests to his lifelong belief in the ...

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 ...

Indirani College of Nursing celebrates new graduates with lamp-lighting ceremony, emphasizing education, discipline, and ...

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 ...

Florence Nightingale’s influence on India extends far beyond her role in the Crimean War. Though she never set foot in the ...

a nod to Florence Nightingale, a British nurse who was considered the founder of modern nursing. “We do a Nightingale tribute where we read the poems as though he or she was there and we light the ...

Some women wouldn't settle for being housekeepers. They became lighthousekeepers. A Women's History Month presentation by the ...