The Museum launches an Introduction to the Archive Film! - Museum of the Order of St John Skip to content Previous post Next post It’s Explore Your Archive week and today’s theme is #YourArchives – what better way to celebrate our archive than to launch our new archive film! Our film is the culmination of our exciting two-year project to catalogue the founding records of St John Ambulance from c.1870s – 1939, funded through an Archives Revealed cataloguing grant. The cataloguing project has enabled us to better understand and care for the Archive’s collections, and to increase access to the founding records of St John Ambulance through the launch of the Archive’s catalogue on Collections Online But, not content with *just* doing the cataloguing project, we promised ourselves that we would make a film at the end of the project to introduce the Archive to you all, and we have done just that. After putting in so much work for the Archives Revealed project, we wanted to create an accessible visual introduction to the St John Archive, to let people know what it is, where it is, and how it can be accessed. We spent a day filming at the Museum, capturing Archive staff and volunteers at work, interviews with staff and volunteers, and some of our archive work with Cadets, working with an excellent filming company to produce the film. We then spent some time working with the filming company to edit, review, and prepare the film, and the result of this work is a short 4-minute introduction to the Archive. Filming behind the scenes with Sophie I am now delighted to introduce the St John Archive to you through the medium of our film, which you can access on the Museum’s YouTube channel here Thank you to everyone who has helped us succeed in our Archives Revealed project and to make this film a success: Archives Revealed, funded by The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, and The Wolfson Foundation. The Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem St John Ambulance St John Fellowship St John Historical Society Abi Cornick, Adrian Ailes, Ameeta Lodhia, Anna Mason, Annie Lord, Arthur Rollison, Brian Hays, Brian Porter, Irene Lafferty, Josie Sommer, Joyce Guillaume, Josephine Moloney, Kal Parkash, Mariam del Carmen Ibrahim, Marleen Vincenten, Ni’mah Monir, Pádraig Allen, Pat Halpin, Princess Coffi, Rosemary Cresswell, Sally Frampton, Sam Sidi, Sophie Denman, Stephen Noble, and Todd Skilton. And of course, our thanks to everyone at Chocolate Films who helped us make this wonderful film. This film was made possible through the generous financial support of Charles Mack, Georgio Cuneo, and Walter Fonseca. Explore Your Archive is a celebration of archives of all kinds across the nation, organised by the Archives & Records Association for UK & Ireland. Previous post Next post READ MORE ABOUT The Museum launches an Introduction to the Archive Film! Latest blog posts Medieval History, Medical History, 10 Minute Talks Leprosy and the Order of St Lazarus Posted Thursday 2nd April Digitisation, St John Archive, Volunteering Some previously unseen photographs from the St John Archive, and Pat finds a photograph of himself! Posted Wednesday 1st April Digitisation, St John Archive, St John People, Conservation, Volunteering An update on our photography project Posted Thursday 12th February