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

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

Book provenance is an area of research into the history of individual books and of libraries, focusing on who owned which books, and what...

World Book Day falls on 5 March this year, and this blog post will look at some of the antiquarian books in the Jesuit Archives which I...

In this blog post, volunteer Lucy tells us about the fascinating process of cataloguing our historically important antiquarian book...

St Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595), whose feast day is celebrated 21 February, is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonised...

349 years ago for four days a major fire burnt in London. The Great Fire of London swept through the city from 2 to 5 September 1666, and...