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Description: | This portrait figure was made in one of the many 19th century Staffordshire potteries, and shows Florence Nightingale standing next to a wounded soldier. Florence Nightingale is famous for her work in military hospitals during the Crimean War (1854-1856), when Britain, France and Turkey were fighting Russia. She worked to improve conditions in the military hospitals and won the undying respect and gratitude of the soldiers. After the war ended she continued her reforms in British civilian hospitals, opening a training school for female nurses and working to improve standards of care and hygiene. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art makers ceramics men date period women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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