Florence Nightingale Influence and Inspiration - July 2010

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A Conference at her Embley Park home on the centenary of her passing

14-16 July 2010

Tuesday 13 July
3pm onwards.  Arrival & Registration (only for those delegates residing at Embley).  
7pm. Dinner [if required].

The Romsey Singers, under the direction of Mr Jeffrey Williams F.R.S.A., are staging an evening of musical celebration based around the events of Florence Nightingale’s life.  This will be performed in various rooms of the main house with narration from Mr David Chapman.

[N.B. This is not part of the conference proper but may be of interest to those who will arrive during the afternoon of 13 July.  A separate charge will consequently apply and it is essential to pre-book as this event caters for limited numbers and will be sold out before 13 July].

Wednesday, 14 July
[conference proper begins]. 
Arrival & Registration from 8.30am.

Morning session.
Chair and welcome:  Hector S. MacDonald, Principal, HCS.

9.30-10.00am.  Dr Russ Foster, Head of History, HCS Embley,
‘Before they were Famous: the Nightingales in Hampshire 1825-1854.’

10.10-10.40am.  Professor Joan Pryor-McCann, Otterbein College, Ohio, U.S.A.,
‘In the Footsteps of Florence Nightingale.  The Magic of Place.’

10.40-11.00am.  Plenary.

11.00-11.30am.  Break and refreshments.

11.30-12.00 noon. Hugh Small (author Florence Nightingale. Avenging Angel), ‘Brucellosis and Psychology.’

12.10-12.40pm.  Professor Linda Freeman, University of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.,‘Florence Nightingale and Health Policy.’

12.40-1pm.  Plenary.

Afternoon session.
2pm.  Depart for Wilton House.  Wilton was a Benedictine Abbey granted by Henry VIII to the Herbert family in 1542 and remodelled by Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century.  Its art treasures include Greek and Roman sculpture and paintings by Rembrandt, Brueghel and Van Dyck.  As a close friend of both Sidney and Elizabeth Hebert, Florence Nightingale was a frequent visitor there.  Sidney Herbert’s memorial, in the unusual Italianate church completed in 1845, includes scenes from the Crimean War. Wilton itself was once the ancient capital of Wessex.  Its main commercial focus today is the shopping village set in parts of its historic carpet factory. 
 
7pm. Dinner.

Thursday, 15 July 

Morning session.
Chair: Hector S. MacDonald, Principal, HCS.

9.30-10.00am.  Dr Helen Betts, Emeritus Dean of Social Science Faculty, Winchester University, U.K., ‘Florence Nightingale and Midwifery.’

10.10-10.40am.  Professor Louise Selanders, Michigan State University, U.S.A., ‘Miss Nightingale in absentia: the 1893 World’s Fair.’

10.40-11.00am.  Plenary.

11-11.30am.  Break and refreshments.

11.30-12.00pm.  Pat Smedley, Chair, Friends of Florence Nightingale Museum, ‘Florence Nightingale and the Nightingale Probationers.’

12.10-12.40pm.  Professor Lyn Thomas, Professor of Management Science, University of Southampton, ‘Florence Nightingale and Statistics.’

12.40-1.00pm.  Plenary.

1.00-2.00pm.  Lunch.

Afternoon session.

2pm. Depart for Romsey.  The Nightingale family were regular visitors to the market town’s impressive Norman Abbey and munificent patrons of local causes.  They also frequently visited Broadlands, home of Lord Palmerston.  A later occupant, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, is interred in the Abbey.  Whilst Broadlands is likely to be closed for refurbishment during 2010, both the Abbey and King John’s House are worth visiting.  From Romsey we will retrace Miss Nightingale’s final journey in August 1910 to St. Margaret’s Church at East Wellow where she lies with her parents in the family grave.

7pm.  Nightingale Dinner with Dame Yvonne Moores, Bournemouth University, former Chief Nursing Officer for England & consultant to the U.N.  To be followed by an address from Mr David Chapman, erstwhile Headmaster, Embley Park, ‘Living with Miss Nightingale.’

Friday, 16 July

Morning session
Chair: Hector S. MacDonald, Principal, HCS.

9.30-10.30am.  Professor Barbara Dossey, International Co-Director, Nightingale Initiative for Global Health, New Mexico, ‘Florence Nightingale’s Legacy for 21st century Global Nursing.’

10.30-11.00am.  Plenary.

11.00-11.30am.  Break and refreshments.

11.30am-12.30pm.  Mark Bostridge (author, Florence Nightingale. The Woman and her Legend), ‘Florence Nightingale and her Biographers’.

12.30-12.45pm.  Plenary.

12.45.-1pm. Concluding Remarks: Professor Mike Clark, Professor of Geography, University of Southampton, ‘Florence Nightingale: Our Inspiration Still?’

1pm.  Conference closes/lunch/depart.

We look forward to seeing you again at the FN2020 conference!

[Disclaimer.  All details are correct at the time of going to press.  It may, inevitably, prove necessary to alter details of speakers and topics without prior notice.  Photograph of FN at Embley by kind permission of the Florence Nightingale Museum]