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🗓️ 10 August 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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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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| 1:10.4 | Today we're going back to the 13th of August 1910 and the death of one of the great figures in the history of medicine. |
| 1:17.0 | Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale. |
| 1:20.0 | This is the voice of Florence Nightingale. |
| 1:27.0 | She was so famous in her day that she was one of the first people to have her voice recorded in 1890 to raise money for veterans of the |
| 1:35.0 | Crimean War. Her message is now in the library at the Welcome Collection. God |
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