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 ...

The lamp lighting and oath-taking ceremony for the first batch of BSc Nursing students at Milagres College of Nursing was ...

Florence Nightingale’s family home ... and famously became known as the “Lady with the Lamp” for her nighttime care routines. She went on to establish the world’s first professional ...

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 ...