Florence Nightingale

[Yellow Fang]

It's just a shame she killed so many soldiers with her lack of any idea about hygiene, other than that she did try to help.

Wait a sec - unfair. She certainly campaigned on sanitation once she understood the importance. Her 30 year accomplice Dr John Sutherland was an expert in it. When she landed in Scutari - she had her hands full trying get medical supplies and what not. It wasn't her fault the British Army selected a hospital that was built over shoot.

 

[FishFright]

I always knew @rich p was a (gentleman and a) scholar

And an acrobat

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4946929, member: 1314"]A racist and not as worthy as Mary Seacole.[/QUOTE]
She can't have been totally ghastly, surely?
http://www.bestcurrentaffairs.com/national-florence-nightingale-awards/

Is she in line for a spot of righteous statue-toppling?

 

[Accy cyclist]

She is/was one of Britain's folklore heroes.

It's always easy,sometimes acceptable, for some to slag such a person off,when they've been long dead.

 

[raleighnut]

She is/was one of Britain's folklore heroes.
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It's always easy,sometimes acceptable, for some to slag such a person off,when they've been long dead.

Yep, Folklore -
the body of stories and legends attached to a particular place, group, activity, etc

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yep, Folklore -
the body of stories and legends attached to a particular place, group, activity, etc

Still a hero in my book! Why try and discredit her? Who's next? Edith Cavell?


"The night before her execution, she told the Reverend Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."[20] These words are inscribed on her statue in St Martin's Place, near Trafalgar Square in London. Her final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, "Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country."

 

[raleighnut]

Still a hero in my book! Why try and discredit her? Who's next? Edith Cavell?


"The night before her execution, she told the Reverend Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."[20] These words are inscribed on her statue in St Martin's Place, near Trafalgar Square in London. Her final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, "Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country."

In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War, as were some follow-up articles published in The Guardian and the Sunday Times

EDIT -Quote from Wikipedia

 

[slowmotion]

In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War, as were some follow-up articles published in The Guardian and the Sunday Times

EDIT -Quote from Wikipedia

The Guardian pisses on figures from Britain's past ????????

Say it ain't so!

 

[Accy cyclist]

In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War,

We could all dig up things from the past and discredit them. We should accept that things happened then because that was their way. The BBC is no friend of our history. No wonder so many people resent paying their license fee.

 

[slowmotion]

Statue toppling.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/a-short-history-of-statue-toppling/

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody has a lovely Florence Nightingale uniform

 

[Oxo]

Miss Goodbody has a lovely Florence Nightingale uniform

Perhaps you should take it off and let her wear it.

 

[MrPie]

Fantastic.....a thread with pie in it. Can never be too much pie.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 4947409, member: 259"]From what I remember from my extensive research background reading (see bibliography below), Florence would probably have frowned on pies. She was passionate about lettuce though.

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Lettuce pie?

 

[rich p]

Lettuce pie?

Lettuce spray...
Our Father...