Posted September 29, 2017 12:53 pm by Abigail Turner under Guest blogs History Volunteering
by Matthieu Isbell Matthieu Isbell is an undergraduate student of Ancient and Medieval History and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, entering his final academic year. He has an especial interest in the Crusades. He has been volunteering at the Museum of the Order St John over the summer, researching and writing about kings of Latin... Read more »
Posted August 24, 2017 4:30 pm by Abigail Turner under Impact Volunteering
This summer Matthieu Isbell spent a month at the Museum of the Order of St John volunteering with two important projects. One, to collate and catalogue some of the many thousands of very important Order of St John nomination forms, and another, which Matthieu discusses here. Why did you want to volunteer with the... Read more »
Posted August 24, 2017 4:30 pm by Abigail Turner under Guest blogs History Volunteering
by Matthieu Isbell Matthieu Isbell is an undergraduate student of Ancient and Medieval History and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, entering his final academic year. He has an especial interest in the Crusades. He has been volunteering at the Museum of the Order St John over the summer, researching and writing about kings of Latin... Read more »
Posted August 24, 2017 4:30 pm by Abigail Turner under Guest blogs History Volunteering
by Matthieu Isbell Matthieu Isbell is an undergraduate student of Ancient and Medieval History and Culture at Trinity College Dublin, entering his final academic year. He has an especial interest in the Crusades. He has been volunteering at the Museum of the Order St John over the summer, researching and writing about kings of Latin... Read more »
Posted September 27, 2016 2:53 pm by Abigail Turner under Collections Impact Volunteering
This summer Flora Raybould joined the Bearers of the Cross team for five weeks to take on the mammoth task of sorting, identifying and cataloguing the Cyprus coins from our crusader coin collection. She approached the task with great enthusiasm and quickly got to grips with the extensive collection, making impressive progress and a significant... Read more »
Posted June 9, 2016 11:51 am by Rosie Weetch under Project updates Volunteering
We are now half way through getting the Museum of the Order of St John’s collection ready to go online. Photographs have been taken and edited, and we are now nearing the end of getting all our catalogue records up to scratch. Getting the records of the Museum’s medieval objects ready to go online has... Read more »
Posted May 16, 2016 11:46 am by Rosie Weetch under Impact Project updates Volunteering
One of the key outcomes for the Bearers of the Cross project is to create an online resource which details the medieval objects held in the collection at the Museum of the Order of St John. This resource is hosted on this website, and you can begin to explore it HERE (although note that we... Read more »