Florence Nightingale

[rich p]

She invented the pie chart.

Did she invent the Flo Chart too?

 

[Dayvo]

Didn't she used to knit balaclavas ?

I think I've heard her singing at night.

 

[lutonloony]

I think I've heard her singing at night.

In Berkley square?

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 4946929, member: 1314"]A racist and not as worthy as Mary Seacole.[/QUOTE]

Is there the slightest bit of truth or evidence for that ?

And comparison with another worthy figure is somewhat silly surely

 

[GrumpyGregry]

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.

Isn't a fully rounded, factual, appraisal of the attitudes and behaviours of the heroes of the British Empire worthy of a mature liberal democracy, now the odd century or so has passed.

Or are we proles just to accept the myth as peddled to us?

NB. Blue Peter cast Nightingale as an unblemished, spotless, hero in my youth, fairly sure it was a BBC programme...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4946929, member: 1314"]A racist and not as worthy as Mary Seacole.[/QUOTE]
Hardly an exceptional characteristic, nor unique to her, thobut?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Blue Peter cast Nightingale as an unblemished, spotless, hero in my youth, fairly sure it was a BBC programme...

That was before the BBC was overrun with crazed Marxists.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

In Berkley square?

Thought the modern consensus was that it was a robin?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I don't think Florence Nightingale was to blame for Mary Seacole not having been selected as one of the nurses for the mission. She contributed to Mary Seacole's testamonial fund after she went bankrupt. Florence Nightingale campaigned for reform in India, starting with health reforms for the British soldiers serving there, then all sorts of progressive reform benefiting Indian society, including irrigation, land tenure and the condition of peasants, British policy, agriculture and forestry measures, sanitation, public health, and independence. She assisted Dadabhai Naoroji, founder of the Indian National Congress, to be elected to Westminster. So not particularly racist considering the times.

 

[slowmotion]

I don't think Florence Nightingale was to blame for Mary Seacole not having been selected as one of the nurses for the mission. She contributed to Mary Seacole's testamonial fund after she went bankrupt. Florence Nightingale campaigned for reform in India, starting with health reforms for the British soldiers serving there, then all sorts of progressive reform benefiting Indian society, including irrigation, land tenure and the condition of peasants, British policy, agriculture and forestry measures, sanitation, public health, and independence. She assisted Dadabhai Naoroji, founder of the Indian National Congress, to be elected to Westminster. So not particularly racist considering the times.

Yes, that's what I was led to believe. Unfortunately I seem to have been living in some kind of false reality, and need re-educating by those kind journalists in The Guardian.

 

[lutonloony]

Thought the modern consensus was that it was a robin?

I have no idea ( about most things)

 

[Crackle]

Yes, that's what I was led to believe. Unfortunately I seem to have been living in some kind of false reality, and need re-educating by those kind journalists in The Guardian.

You clearly need to practise your hand wringing, gnashing of teeth and wailing. I won't mention self-flagellation in case people get the wrong idea.

I like the Guardian but sometimes it can't see beyond its own navel