Following a £1.4 million redevelopment, the Florence Nightingale Museum re-opened on May 12, the birth date of the Lady of the Lamp. Her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women and in 1860, she established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital.

Shows and exhibitions were massively popular in the Victorian era as the public flocked to gaze at the latest wonder brought in by the Victorian plant hunters. Likewise, this year’s “The Victorian Aviary Garden” at …

Jane Austen exhibition reveals author’s life and brings new prominence to her final resting place. As the bicentenary decade of Jane Austen’s heyday and early death approaches, a new permanent exhibition at her resting place …

Watch eyes grow wide when horses charge and cannons roar as reenactors from across the country bring an 1860’s battle to life again. Young and old can learn firsthand what the Civil War was about …