That History Bloke returns with a brand new activity – and this time he has brought a friend! If you could ask Florence Nightingale a question, what would it be? Would it be about what she did to change hospitals during the Crimean War? Would you ask about the difficulties of becoming respected as a Victorian woman? Perhaps you would like to find out about her early life? Or maybe you just want to ask her about the owl in her pocket...

This activity starts with your class helping a Doctor of Scutari Hospital to identify what he is doing wrong: could it be the dirty towels, the lack of beds, or the rat droppings and soaking straw that make his patients get ill?

After that, you can help Florence to turn the hospital from a death trap into a place of healing. Learn how to clean and dress wounds, scrub the floors and wash the sheets. Real medical and domestic artefacts from Victorian times help the changes that Florence made come to life. Empty that bed pan!