Stephen Mossman and Abi Cornick discuss the history of the Order of St John from its origins in twelfth-century Jerusalem to the modern St John Ambulance, and the genesis of its Museum and historic library in St John’s Gate. Why was a religious order that had been suppressed in the British Isles during the Reformation reinvented in the Victorian era? What had happened to its old priory in London, and how was it rediscovered for the Museum?

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