Article: History lesson with Florence.

Article: Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her ...
History Today;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Florence Nightingale The Woman and Her Legend ... Brunel's Forgotten Crimean War Hospital Christopher ... the reputation of Florence Nightingale has shifted from that ... Lady of the Lamp of Crimean War legend is highly seductive ...

Article: No care for heroes ; After watching the BBC's docudrama on ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  June 3, 2008 ;     324 words ...After watching the BBC's docudrama on Florence Nightingale, I couldn't help but think that 150 years after the Crimean War, the Lady with the Lamp must be spinning in her grave at the totally inadequate care wounded servicemen still receive ...

Article: The invitation that never came: Mary Seacole after the Crimea: ...
History Today;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... all the public acclaim accorded Seacole after her return, as a nursing heroine of the Crimean conflict like Florence Nightingale, one might have thought she would be deemed worthy of her monarch's commendation and certainly of a personal ...

Article: CITY WARDS 'LIKE A CRIMEAN WAR ZONE' Inquiry anger ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  September 13, 2004 ;     522 words ... ... something out of the Crimean War', according to health ... Selly Oak Hospitals to the Crimean War times of Florence Nightingale, and urged trusts to ... Victorian nursing legend Florence Nightingale; SHOCK: Deirdre Alden

Article: Centre stage for Crimean War's front-line angel.
Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England);  June 12, 2007 ;     675 words ... ... footsteps of Florence Nightingale, has remained ... during the Crimean War. She was ... tried to join Florence Nightingale's team ... out to the Crimean War's front ... While Florence Nightingale's benevolence ...

Article: Poll celebrates contribution of black Britons; NURSE WHO TENDED ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  February 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... LOW AN UNSUNG heroine of the Crimean War, she tended the wounded but ... penniless while her contemporary Florence Nightingale was feted the world over. Now ... LIST IN FULL 1 Mary Seacole, Crimean War nurse 2 Wilfred Wood, first ...

Article: A revisionist to the left of them . . . This reputation-pricking ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the ... conflict known to us as the Crimean War. The name, as Clive ... take on the myths of the Crimean War? Well, no. Revisionists ... overblown reputation of Florence Nightingale, the well-born English ...