Florence Nightingale

Collection

She is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Discover the events and achievements of Florence Nightingale’s life through objects she would have used to help nurse British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. Injured men called her the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. Included in the collection is the replica of one of five Turkish lanterns to have survived. Use the facemasks to role play her life and that of the soldiers she treated.

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