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Florence Nightingale OM, RRC ( /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse.
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Frances Parthenope had similarly been named after her place of birth, Parthenopolis, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples.
Coordinates: 51°30′1″N 0°7′3″W / 51.50028°N 0.1175°W / 51.50028; -0.1175
The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It re-opened on May 12 2010 following an extensive £1.4m refurbishment.
The museum tells the real story of the lady with the lamp from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform. Florence Nightingale, is recognised as the founder of modern nursing in the United Kingdom. The new museum explains her legacy and also celebrates nursing today.
In 1860, four years after her famous involvement in the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the museum is located on this site.
The new museum is designed around three exciting pavilions which tell her story:
Highlights from the Collection include:
The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is a school within King's College London. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives. It also carries out nursing research, continuing professional development and postgraduate programmes.
The School has a history which dates back to the first ever school of nursing opened by Florence Nightingale at St. Thomas' Hospital on 9 July 1860. The School forms part of the Waterloo campus on the South Bank of the River Thames and is now one of the largest schools in the university.
Actors: Roy Hudd (actor), Laura Fraser (actress), Norman Stone (director), Michael Pennington (actor), Paul J. Dove (actor), Jeffrey C. Weber (producer), Barbara Marten (actress), Phil Gwilliam (actor), Jeremy Soule (composer), Colin Goudie (editor), Sean McKenzie (actor), Keith Clifford (actor), Kate Efomi (miscellaneous crew), Nicky Albrechtsen (costume designer), Tim Dann (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Andy Cowton (composer), Sonali Fernando (director), Sonali Fernando (writer), Subarna Ray Chaudhuri (costume designer), Steve Stevenson (editor), Henry Singer (actor), Paul Kerr (producer), Adam Bullimore (producer), Ros Little (costume designer), Angela Bruce (actress), Michelle Bunyan (actress), Helen Rappaport (miscellaneous crew), Yvette Rowe (miscellaneous crew), Jane Copland (actress), Laurel Sastri Jagroo (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Anna Massey (actress), Tony Tew (director), Lynette Edwards (actress), Geraldine Osment (producer), Geraldine Osment (writer), Jeff Osment (producer),
Genres: History, Short,Actors: Roger Caine (actor), David Christopher (actor), Ron Hudd (actor), Ron Jeremy (actor), George Payne (actor), Candida Royalle (actress), Dominique Saint Claire (actress), Radley Metzger (producer), Radley Metzger (writer), Gérard Kikoïne (director), Radley Metzger (director), Dave Ruby (actor), Desiree Cousteau (actress), Vanessa del Rio (actress), Samantha Fox (actress),
Plot: The call girl Betty sends her housewife client Tiffany to Florence Nightingale, a radio show host who lets listeners of all genders have anal and oral sex with her right in front of her live audience. Tiffany later peeps on her husband's own cheating.
Keywords: anal-sex, audience-participation, bar, call-girl, character-name-in-title, cunnilingus, daydream, ejaculation, fellatio, female-masturbationActors: George Schaefer (producer), Denholm Elliott (actor), George Schaefer (director), Julie Harris (actress), Torin Thatcher (actor), Kate Reid (actress), Alan Webb (actor), Brian Bedford (actor), John Gerstad (actor), James Lee (writer), Leueen MacGrath (actress), Margaret Hall (actress), Mildred Trares (actress), William Jackson (actor), Toni Darnay (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Isobel Elsom (actress), Sarah Churchill (actress), William Corrigan (director), William Corrigan (producer), Richard Fraser (actor), Jean Holloway (writer), A.J. Herbert (actor), Mary Barclay (actress), Alexander Clark (actor), John O'Hare (actor), John M. Moore (actor), Robin Craven (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Jack Watling (actor), Herbert Wilcox (producer), C. Aubrey Smith (actor), Walter Rilla (actor), Anna Neagle (actress), Derrick De Marney (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Edgar Driver (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Anton Walbrook (actor), Gordon McLeod (actor), Frederick Leister (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Miles Malleson (writer),
Plot: Picking up where "Victoria the Great" left off, this sequel to the 1938 film returns Anna Neagle to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch's reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Victoria's relationship with Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) as well as the political and military upheavals that characterized her time as England's royal leader.
Keywords: 19th-century, archer, benjamin-disraeli, britain, brother, buckingham-palace-london, coronation, death, destiny, dignitaryActors: Gordon McLeod (actor), Aubrey Mallalieu (actor), Moore Marriott (actor), Paul Henreid (actor), Felix Aylmer (actor), Hal Gordon (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Albert Lieven (actor), O.B. Clarence (actor), Syd Crossley (actor), Ivor Barnard (actor), Derrick De Marney (actor), Charles Carson (actor), Percy Parsons (actor), Edgar Driver (actor),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Reginald Beck (editor), Elizabeth Haffenden (costume designer), Fay Compton (actress), Campbell Gullan (director), Patric Knowles (actor), Bruce Seton (actor), Alastair Sim (actor), Michael Wilding (actor), David Hutcheson (actor), Arthur Young (actor), Derek Blomfield (actor), Polly Emery (actress), Alex Bryce (director), Selwyn Jepson (writer), Hugh Brooke (writer),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Tefft Johnson (actor), Wallace Reid (actor), Julia Swayne Gordon (actress), Edith Storey (actress), Rose Tapley (actress), Hal Reid (writer), Hal Reid (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,