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

Lucy Vinten
Sep 27, 20206 min read


Reduce, Reuse, Recycle the 17th Century Way
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...

Lucy Vinten
Mar 2, 20207 min read


Cataloguing 'The Month'
The cataloguing of The Month – a monthly publication owned and operated by the British Province of the Society of Jesus from 1865 until...
Alex Van Goethem
Aug 11, 20195 min read


Caring for Glass Plate Negatives
Back in March 2018 Lorraine Finch, a photograph conservator, gave the archive team some valuable training on identifying different...

Rebecca Somerset
Jul 14, 20195 min read


Fr Cyril Martindale SJ
One of the Archive’s most recently completed cataloguing projects is the collection of personal papers of one of the Society’s most...
Alex Van Goethem
Jun 2, 20193 min read


Cataloguing Relics
In this blog post Jonathan Roche, a PhD student who undertook work experience in the Archives, gives an account of his work cataloguing...
Work Experience Placement
Apr 7, 20196 min read


Catholic Social Guild Summer School, 1927
During the month of September the Archives closes to visitors and does not deal with remote enquiries (unless it is an urgent matter)....

Rebecca Somerset
Sep 23, 20184 min read


Two Years as Archives Assistant
To date, the Archives have supported two part-time Archives Assistants, with the aim of helping prospective archivists into the...

Lucy Vinten
Jul 29, 20185 min read
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