Florence Nightingale Comes Home Online Resources

(1) A Derbyshire Family: webpage introducing the Nightingale family and key events in Florence's early life. Adapted from the Florence Nightingale Derbyshire Association's 2010 Exhibition.

Letter from young Florence Nightingale to Henry, p1-2, 1829

Reading book for children 'Pretty Stories to Instruct and Amuse Little Folk', C 1820s, University fo Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collection Library Archive

Industrial Connections: A web page exploring some of the connections between the Nightingale family and local industry, including lead mining, the Arkwright cotton miles in Cromford, and Peter Nightingale's own mill at Lea Bridge. Also includes information about another influential family of the time, the Strutts. Some images of buildings and architecture.

A 360 interactive tour of Cromford Bridge House Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-and-holloway.aspx

Nightingale Sites in Lea, Holloway, & the Surrounding Area, including Lea Hall and Cromford Bridge House.

Lea Wood walking trail Linked from: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/nightingales-connections-to-derbyshire.aspx

Florence Nightingale Heritage Trail driving guide (Holloway, Lea, Whatstandwell, Dethick, Lea Bridge and Cromford) Linked from: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/nightingales-connections-to-derbyshire.aspx

Florence Nightingale Heritage Trail walking guide (Holloway, Lea and Whatstandwell) Linked from: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/nightingales-connections-to-derbyshire.aspx

A guided tour of Florence Nightingale's Derbyshire (10:27)

Postcard: "Lea Hurst" - the Royal Surgical Aid Society's Home for the Elderly. From Susan Tomlinson's collection, publisher unknown. Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-hurst.aspx

Postcard: "Lea Hurst" - the Royal Surgical Aid Society's Home for the Elderly. From Susan Tomlinson's collection, publisher unknown. Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-hurst.aspx

Plaque in the Lea Hurst entrance. Photograph by Richard Bates, with permission of Peter Kay Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-hurst.aspx

Drone footage of Lea Hurst and surrounding area. Photography credit: Filipe Cordeiro and Valeria Guimar�es, 2019. All rights reserved. Thanks to Peter Kay for sharing this video with the project team. Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-hurst.aspx

Lea Hurst as photographed in the late 19th century by Richard Keene, an early Derby photographer and founder member of the Derby Photographic Society. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0). Embedded on page: http://www.florencenightingale.org/florence-nightingale-in-derbyshire/lea-hurst.aspx

Lea Hurst, home of Florence Nightingale's family in Derbyshire. Etching by F. Nightingale, ca. 1860.

Our project and online exhibition featured on BBC East Midlands Today, 12 May 2020, including interviews with Paul Crawford and Hayley Cotterill

"Health at Home" exhibition board From Exhibition Boards collection: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/exhibitions/online/florence-nightingale/index.aspx#theme

"A Derbyshire Family" exhibition board From Exhibition Boards collection: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/exhibitions/online/florence-nightingale/index.aspx#theme

"Florence Nightingale Comes Home" exhibition board From Exhibition Boards collection: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/exhibitions/online/florence-nightingale/index.aspx#theme

Mini-Lecture: Nightingale's Spiritual Home: Professor Paul Crawford explores Nightingale's "households of faith" and the role of faith and spirituality in her later life. (08:18)

Mini-Lecture: Nightingale (not quite) at Home with India: Dr Anna Greenwood examines Nightingale's "bedroom imperialism" in her work on India - and its limits (09:48)

Mini-Lecture: Health at Home: Dr Jonathan Memel discusses Nightingale's relationship to ordinary people's houses, through the practice of health visiting and her book Notes on Nursing. (13:12)

Mini-Lecture: Nightingale Before the Crimea: Dr Richard Bates introduces Nightingale's childhood homes - and her struggle to leave them behind. (12:47)

Florence Nightingale and Health at Home: Dr Jonathan Memel explores how young Nightingale�s charitable visits to working-class cottages inspired her longstanding mission to improve the living conditions of working people in Britain. (51:47)

Florence Nightingale's Sister(s): Family and Nursing in the Nineteenth Century: Dr Richard Bates examines Florence Nightingale�s relationship with her sister, Parthenope, and her development from dutiful daughter to national nursing heroine. (29:03)

Focus on: The Diary of the 5th Duke of Newcastle (02:32)

Focus on: Suggestions on... organising nurses for the sick poor in workhouse infirmaries (03:06)

Focus on: Report on the State of Hospitals of the British Army (03:47)

Focus on: Letter from Florence Nightingale (2:28)