Blog Posts

Exploring the importance of St Francis Borgia to the Society of Jesus through our rare books collection.

This year, 15 October marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, or more commonly, the Holy Name

On 25 September 1861 Fr Alfred Weld (Rector of Beaumont Lodge and Director of Novices) met Fr Henry McCann, Procurator of the Province,...

Many of the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian book collection contain re-used paper or other material, usually as part of the binding or as...

This year, 20 May marks the 500th anniversary of the injury that Ignatius of Loyola received at Pamplona, sparking his conversion.

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Father Leo O'Hea SJ (1881–1976).

This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....

In 2018, shortly before the final closure of Heythrop College, some very special items arrived at the British Jesuit Archives.

On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...

A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal....

Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...

Lockdown and working from home has meant that I have not been able to continue with cataloguing the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book...

In today’s ‘From the Archives’ blog post we revisit this post from January 2018 on the 155th anniversary of the Jesuit publication...

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is not going to be forgotten any time soon, especially as we are still only just slowly starting to...

2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...

Christmas 2020 looks set to be a Christmas like no other. Traditionally a time spent with family and friends, thanks to the global...