THIS IS A STORY

about a...

MY INFOGRAPHIC HEROINE

A queen......

VICTORIA

A nurse......

a WAR(AND INFOGRAPHICS)

the war was...

(THE CRIMEAN - 1853-1856 )The British, French and Ottoman Turks were at war with the Russians...

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Florence Nightingale

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and

travelled East....

....to care for the wounded men

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Many of the menwere dying frompreventable causes.Bacterial infections,and disease spreadby the unsanitaryconditions in the military hospitals. The vast majority of men were not dying from their injuries.

Florence documents and records these deaths.

1857

FLORENCE NIGHTIGALE USED INFORMATION GRAPHICSTO PERSAUDE QUEEN VICTORIA TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS IN MILITARY HOSPITALS

the Coxcomb chart, a combination of stacked bar and pie charts, depicting the number and causes of deaths during each month of the Crimean War.

Deaths from battle woundsDeaths from other causesDeaths from preventable causes

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Diagram of the Causes of Mortalityin the Army in the East

QUEEN VICTORIA IT TURNED OUT WAS A HUGE FAN OF THEINFoGRAPHIC.......( WHO ISN'T?!)

The military hospitals received increased funding.

International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

1860 Nightingale established the first secularnursing school in the world at St.Thomas’Hospital in London.

The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour

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THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY

BUT ITS SIGNIFICANCE LIES INWHEN IT TOOK PLACE...

THIS WAS NOT LIKE NOW.....

1000,000,000

ONE BILLION PICTURESA DAY

PHOTOGRAPHY WAS IN IT’S INFANCY

CHARLES DICKENS

This was the time ofthe written word...

DESCRIPTIVE PASSAGES

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

HARD TIMES

It was also a time when despite a female monarch....

It was also a time when despite a female monarch....

X VOTEWOMEN HAD NO

It was also a time when despite a female monarch....

X VOTEWOMEN HAD NO

COULD NOT BE DOCTORSCOULD NOT BE LAWYERS

COULD NOT ATTAIN PROFESSIONAL STATUSand...

THIS NURSE THIS WOMAN THESE VISUALS

were impossible toignore, which is why she is my infographic heroine.

designed for

...Storytelling

by Emma Sivell