Library News
Since the New Year, the Librarian has expanded the online Author-Index Catalogue with the addition of about eighty-five books and journal articles, which he hopes will be of interest to Order members in Scotland.
New acquisitions include:
The First Ten Years’ Working of the St John Eye Hospital, Baragwanath, 1951-1961, Johannesburg: Die St John Oogheelkundige / St John Ophthalmic Foundation, 1962.
[Baragwanath is situated in the Soweto area of Johannesburg. The Dept of Ophthalmology, the St John Eye Hospital, is now a department of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, the third largest hospital in the world. The Priory for South Africa of the Order of St John – stjohn.org.za – operates a dozen Eye Care Centres across South Africa. In 1962 the Sam and Dora Cohen Foundation was established. This endowed the first full-time Chair of Ophthalmology in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand.]
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem by Meron Benvenisti, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
All in Order: the very best of St John History, ed. by James Cheshire, Canberra: St John
Ambulance Historical Society of Australia, 2016.
Modern Medicine in the Holy Land: Pioneering British Medical Services in Late
Ottoman Palestine by Yaron Perry & Efraim Lev, London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Order of St John response to COVID-19 pandemic – articles and
press releases, 24 Mar. 2020 – 7 Apr. 2021.
St John Historical Society [40th Anniversary]: A collection of Society Papers ed. by Paul Gwilliam, London: St John Historical Society, 2021.
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
by Gerard Russell, New York: Basic Books, 2014.
John the Baptist: His Life and Afterlife by Josephine Wilkinson, Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2022.
A Beacon of Hope: 140 years of eye care in the Holy Land, 1882-2022 by Matthew Glozier,
Ian Howie-Willis & John Pearn, Canberra, ACT: St John Ambulance Australia for St John
International and St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group, 2022.
Click here to access: Author-Index Catalogue