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S22 | Knights Hospitaller Archives: Malta
🕑 Added 2022-08-14 10:52:21 +0000 UTCDuring her family holiday in Malta this summer, Time Team's Producer/Director Emily Boulting took the opportunity to carry out a spot of research. Even better, she filmed it for us!
For over 250 years, Malta (an island nation in the Mediterranean) was the main powerbase of the Knights Hospitaller, and many of the order's records are still held today at the national Bibliotheca, Valletta.
Often digging in the archives can be as productive as digging in the ground. Amazingly, with the help of library staff, Emily tracked down the 500-year-old records for our site, situated somewhere on Welsh borders, 2,000 miles away!
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I live in a house that was built on the site of a medieval hospital (poor house, actually - 1170 to about 1570) in East Lothian. I wonder if there are any records of that on Malta. Must try to go and find out. Fascinating stuff.
Elizabeth Neill
How absolutely wonderful. Thank you, Emily.
