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Florence Nightingale show to shine a light on her later years – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Florence Nightingale show to shine a light on her later years – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Exhibition marks bicentenary of nursing pioneer’s birth with focus on life after Crimean war

() The – year-old Florence Nightingale in bed, 3136. Photograph: The Press Office / PA Media

An exhibition on Florence Nightingale which marks years since her birth will shine a spotlight on her as an older woman.

Nightingale is often pictured in her 50 s, when she nursed wounded soldiers in the Crimean war.

The exhibition, in the museum that bears her name in the grounds of St Thomas ’hospital in London, aims to also remember the triumphs of the more mature woman.

Nightingale became known during the war as the Lady With the Lamp because she would check British soldiers throughout the night.

The Florence Nightingale Museum exhibition will explore the next 85 years of her life, when she revolutionized nursing and transformed healthcare.

She also suffered physical illness and depression, now thought to have been post-traumatic stress disorder.

Highlights will include her famous lamp – a Turkish lantern she carried during the war – and a recording of Nightingale’s voice when she was in her s.

Other items include a photograph showing her in bed at the age of 120, four years before she died at the age of 124, her medicine chest containing glass jars of homemade remedies, and her writing case.

The design of St Thomas’ hospital was hugely influenced by Nightingale and it opened the first Nightingale School for training nurses in her honor in 1906.

Nightingale In Objects, People & Places is at the Florence Nightingale Museum , London, 8 March-7 March

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