Catch up: January 2025

Postings on the blog have been few in the past few months as we have been working hard refreshing and updating the content on the website in preparation for a fresh look on our new website coming soon.  Here are a few catch-up  items that we saved that will be of interest to our readers.

Congratulations to Vivian Eliopoulos, President, and CEO of Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), winner in the Health and Wellness category of the YWCA Metro Vancouver Women of Distinction Award presented by Scotiabank. The Awards ceremony took place on May 13, 2024, at Westin Bayshore. Over 35 years ago, Vivian started her career as a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital.   For more information  https://www.vch.ca/en/vivian-eliopoulos-0

A new book, ( March 2024)  Flight of the Wild Swan, by Melissa Pritchard is a work of historical fiction that “tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend.” A reviewer says, “A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine.”

The Florence Nightingale Museum in London England has an interesting newsletter!

Below are some highlights:

The May issue features a display and article about the WW2 Flying Nightingales.

https://making-history.ca/2021/05/23/flying-nightingales/ https://making-history.ca/2021/05/23/flying-nightingales/

The June issue features a Red Cross feeding cup.

In the September issue a featured object from the Museum’s collection is a bracelet and its box that belonged to Florence Nightingale. The bracelet includes hair from Nightingales’ family and a note which says, “FN’s bracelet; containing her father’s, mother’s, Parthe’s and Shore’s hair which she wore under her sleeve all the time in the Crimea, given by her to LSN [Louis Shore Nightingale].”