Posted March 21, 2017 10:28 am by William Purkis under Events History Public engagement
The film of the lecture on crusader body-marking from our last public event is now available via the Museum of the Order of St John’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it here: To view other films associated with the project, please visit Bearers of the Cross TV, where they are now collected together on one page. The... Read more »
Posted March 17, 2017 12:56 pm by William Purkis under Events History Public engagement
Earlier this month various news organisations, websites and social media platforms were reporting an exciting discovery in rural Shropshire: an underground network of tunnels and caves, supposedly constructed in the Middle Ages by members of the Order of the Temple, better known as the Knights Templar. Many medievalists were sceptical about a direct association between this admittedly... Read more »
Posted April 14, 2016 4:36 pm by Rosie Weetch under Events History Project updates Public engagement
We filmed the first of our public events, held on the 23rd March at the Museum of the Order of St John. So, if you were not able to make our first public lecture on the 23rd March, or you did make it but wish you could hear it all over again, then you now... Read more »
Posted March 24, 2016 11:43 am by Rosie Weetch under Events Project updates Public engagement
Thank you to everyone who came to our first public event. Visitors had the chance to get up close to one of the models of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They were then treated to a fascinating talk by William which explored the role of relics during the crusades, and how crusaders negotiated the tensions... Read more »