Historical information

Florence Nightingale helped to set up the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860. Following the first intake of 15 ‘probationer’ trainee nurses, the school improved and expanded over the following decades, spreading Nightingale’s ideas of nurse training across the world. The school was overseen by the Matrons of St Thomas’s Hospital.
During her time as Matron of St Thomas’s, Dame Alicia Lloyd Still started to collect objects that had belonged to Nightingale or that Nightingale had gifted to some of the nurses who had trained at the Nightingale Training School.
The objects that Lloyd Still collected were held at the Nightingale Training School and came to be known as the ‘Nightingalia’. The objects were used by the probationer nurses as a teaching tool and occasionally they would be used for exhibitions, or to mark key anniversaries and events.
The collection transferred to the newly created Florence Nightingale Museum Trust in 1983, who then opened the museum on the site of the Training School in 1989.
Since then the museum has continued to grow and has welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world, sharing Nightingales legacy, celebrating Nursing and inspiring the next generation of nurses.
This notepad is a souvenir from the musuem

Significance

Exaple of memorabilia from the Florence Nightingale Museum

Physical description

Unlied note book with white pages and blue cover. On the front cover within a single line border is a portrait of Florence Nightingale at top and 'FN' overprinted with signature of Florence Nightingale at base. Printed sideways 'A WOMAN OF/ Fame, Power,/Influence...'

Inscriptions & markings

At top left of the front cover there is a small white sticker on wnich the previous catalogue number is handwritten [black ink]