Hugh Small’s new book establishes Nightingale as one of the leading politicians of the Victorian era [...]
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Was it her fault that so many died in her Crimean War hospital? [...] Some authors believe that Nightingale suffered from depression as a symptom of brucellosis [...] Want to know what Miss Nightingale thought about Cholera? Cats? Gatling guns? Dip into the online digital version of the Calendar of the Letters of Florence Nightingale [...] Most of Nightingale’s private diaries disappeared during WWII. Do they still exist? [...] The rooms where Nightingale and her nurses lived in the Selimye Barracks in Istanbul have never been open to visitors [...] E. T. Cook and C. Woodham Smith had axes to grind, and I. B. O’Malley’s unique contribution went unnoticed [...] Nightingale was the first to use graphical representations of statistics as a call to action, like today’s management consultants [...] She leaked her secret report in defiance of a Government attempt to suppress it. It survived her like the time capsule she intended [...] It was thought that she did her most important work in the Burlington Hotel, which was demolished in the 30s. But, unkown until now, a part of it survived [...] |
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