Florence Nightingale's 'rubbish' amulets to go on display
Amulets bought by Florence Nightingale during her Egyptian holiday in 1849 will be displayed for the first time in England. Nightingale had described the amulets as "Egyptian rubbish" in letters to her sister. She wrote, "you don't know how difficult it is to get anything at Cairo... you will think, and very truly, what I have sent home very shabby."