Episode 34 - Florence Nightingale & Hurrem Sultan Missing History

The stats don't lie - these two ladies are absolutely incredible. This week we learn about a statistician (who was also the founder of modern nursing) and one of the most influential women in the Ottoman Empire from the period known as the Sultanate of Women.



Florence Nightingale

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Nightingale/Homecoming-and-legacy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/

https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35241?rskey=XWmNZs&result=2

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nhs-nightingale-makeshift-hospital-london-excel-centre-photos-2020-4#at-least-two-more-temporary-hospitals-are-being-planned-one-at-the-nec-center-in-birmingham-which-will-house-5000-beds-and-another-at-the-convention-complex-in-manchester-with-1000-beds-19



Hurrem Sultan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrem_Sultan#/media/File:Mausoleum_of_Roxelana_02.jpg

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire

https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2019/02/08/origin-of-hurrem-sultan-still-hotly-debated-in-21st-century

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roxelana