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Florence Nightingale

10/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Florence Nightingale

The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.

The nursing pioneer - known to generations as the "lady with the lamp" - died on August 13th 1910.

Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale - known to generations as the "lady with the lamp" - died on August 13th 1910. Lucy Burns hears a recording of Florence Nightingale's voice from 1890, along with memories of her life from her great-nephew Harry Verney and her private doctor May Thorne - and Dr Rosemary Wall from the University of Hull explains her legacy in the world of public health.

Recording courtesy of the Library at the Wellcome Collection

Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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