He lives here with his wife and four children and has been turning the house into a kind of Florence Nightingale museum. At the war’s end, Nightingale, who shunned fame, appeared unannounced at ...

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.

Florence Nightingale became the heroine of the Crimean War when she and a group of nurses went out to Scutari hospital, in Turkey, to run the hospitals and nurse the soldiers. She took this ...