Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020:an historico-literary analysis of her family life

虽然弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔（1820-1910）是一个熟悉的历史人物，但大多数人并不知道，她的早年和一生中许多夏天都是在德比郡度过的，她的家人在那里建了家，并拥有显赫的商业关系。南丁格尔的许多丰富的作品也是在这里完成的。有些令人惊讶的是，即使是关于南丁格尔的学术著作也很少花时间分析这些地区对她的职业和文学生活的影响，以及她在东米德兰的朋友、家庭和经历对她的态度和工作发展的影响。填补这一知识缺口是项目目标的核心。其首要目标是“将弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔带回家”，并找到富有想象力和引人入胜的方式来使用和庆祝这个被低估的地区成功故事。该项目的主要研究重点是推进南丁格尔区域联系的学术观点，以便对这位标志性人物进行更完整的传记理解。预计这一研究线索也将对南丁格尔家族发挥如此突出作用的重要工业山谷的日常生活产生重要见解。为了实现该项目的研究目标，将首次系统地挖掘当地和全国各地的分散资源，以获取有关南丁格尔地区联系的信息。该项目将提供针对领先学术期刊的开创性研究，并产生跨学科编辑集。它还将通过雇用两名博士后研究人员和资助两名博士生来提高南丁格尔研究的早期职业能力。除了这些学术目标之外，该项目还将与当地社区成员（特别是针对护士）合作，以加深对这位重要女性领袖的地区认同。该项目恰逢2020年庆祝南丁格尔诞辰200周年的全国活动周期。许多明显的夜莺利益相关者，例如夜莺基金会，伦敦和夜莺博物馆，伦敦将积极参与这些程序，但考虑到夜莺在东米德兰兹的重要性，重要的是该地区也在这些庆祝活动中发挥突出作用。该项目将通过三个学术研讨会、两个公开展览（附带讲座和外展活动）以及提供三个专门与护理界接触的讨论场所，突出南丁格尔在伦敦的作用，从而增加伦敦的活动。随着诺丁汉和德比联合成为最大的护士培训区域中心，这似乎是南丁格尔探索激发共同社区身份的新方法的一个相关机会；将她的一些障碍和困境与护理专业所面临的现代问题联系起来。该项目特别感兴趣的是使夜莺的历史可见，并通过网络广泛访问。一个专门的网站（www.floem.org）将提供南丁格尔对当地影响的概要历史，并将展示与她在该地区的时间相关的关键文件和图像。该网站还将提供与其他南丁格尔收藏的交叉参考设施，以帮助全世界的南丁格尔学者。作为一个用户友好的资源，该网站将允许网站访问者以一种引人入胜的方式跟踪项目的研究。最后，该网站将宣传和推广南丁格尔活动，无论它们是作为该项目的一部分，还是在该项目之外。

Although Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is a familiar historical figure, most people do not know that her early years, and plentiful summers throughout her life, were spent in Derbyshire, where her family had built a home and held prominent business connections. It was also where Nightingale conducted a lot of her copious writing. Somewhat surprisingly, even scholarly works on Nightingale have spent comparatively little time analysing these regional influences on her professional and literary life and the way her East Midland's based friends, family and experiences contributed to the development of her attitudes and work. The filling of this knowledge gap sits at the heart of the project's aims. The overarching aim of which is to 'bring Florence Nightingale home' to the East Midlands and to find imaginative and engaging ways to use and celebrate this underappreciated story of regional success.The primary research focus of the project is to advance academic perspectives on Nightingale's regional connections in order to develop a more complete biographical understanding of this iconic figure. It is anticipated that this research thread will also yield important insights into the daily life of the important industrial valley in which the Nightingale family played such a prominent part. To fulfil the research aims of the project, dispersed sources, available both locally and throughout the country will be systematically mined for the first time for information about Nightingale's regional connections. This project will deliver pioneering research targeted at leading academic journals and resulting in an interdisciplinary edited collection. It will additionally advance early career capacity in Nightingale studies by employing two postdoctoral researchers and sponsoring two PhD students. Further to these academic objectives, the project will engage with local community members (particularly targeting nurses) to deepen regional identification with this important female leader. The project is perfectly timed to fit into the national cycle of events planned for 2020 celebrating the bicentenary of Nightingale's birth. Many obvious Nightingale stakeholders, for example the Nightingale Foundation, London and the Nightingale Museum, London will be actively engaged in these proceedings but, given Nightingale's importance in the East Midlands, it is important for the region to also play a prominent role in these celebrations. The project will add to events in London by highlighting the role Nightingale held regionally through three academic workshops, two public exhibitions (with accompanying talks and outreach events) and the provision of three discussion arenas specifically engaging with the nursing community. As Nottingham and Derby combine to make the largest regional hub for nurse training it seems a pertinent opportunity to explore new ways for Nightingale to stimulate a shared community identity; relating some of her obstacles and dilemmas to modern day issues faced by the nursing profession.The project has a particular interest in making Nightingale history visible and widely accessible via the web. A dedicated website (www.floem.org) will provide an outline history of Nightingale's local influences, and will showcase key documents and images pertinent to her time in the region. The site will also provide a cross referencing facility with other Nightingale collections as an aid to Nightingale scholars worldwide. As an user-friendly resource, the website will allow site visitors to follow the project's research in an engaging way. Finally, the website will advertise and promote Nightingale events whether they are conceived as part of, or outside of, this project.