Internship opportunities with Bodmin Keep
Military museum in Cornwall, UK

One of the big things these internships enable is the time to focus on on a topic in-depth.
My favourite part was probably finding out about Percy Griffiths. Following the details from his application I was able to find pictures of him in Bodmin Keep’s archive. This included information about his time as a footballer for a successful team drawn from soldiers in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in the 1930s. This was a nice find – I got to dive a bit deeper and take the initiative.
For me the most challenging part was having to be decisive, as I would have liked to display everything in the collection, and having to pick and choose what actually went into the display case. Because there's only a limited amount of space, you want to avoid overwhelming the person who's looking at it.
My project was created to use the archives at Bodmin Keep – particularly the regimental history book, a scrapbook that was written to record the operations and activities of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry Regiment from their formation in 1959 to their merger into the Light Infantry in 1968. I researched the regiment to provide Bodmin Keep with material for displays and exhibitions going forward.