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 ...

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 ...