Florence Nightingale Foundation Florence Nightingale Chapel in the Abbey. It is carried to honour those killed in conflict and to underpin the links with military nursing and nurses who have lost their lives in the service of others. Students’ Day is an annual event in which students from each University in the UK that has a School of Nursing and Midwifery are invited to spend the day with the Foundation in London. The main venue for the day is The Governors’ Hall at St Thomas’ Hospital. The event includes: a morning plenary discussion session in which students are invited to raise questions or
Florence Nightingale premiering in London in 1929 with Edith Evans in the title role. It did not portray her as an entirely sympathetic character and draws much characterisation from Lytton Strachey's biography of her in "Eminent Victorians". It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1951. In 2009, a stage musical play representation of Nightingale entitled "The Voyage of the Lass" was produced by the Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the Philippines. In 1912, a biographical silent film titled "The Victoria Cross", starring Julia Swayne Gordon as Nightingale, was released, followed in 1915 by another silent film, "Florence