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Making sense of a complex collection
A blog exploring the reality of cataloguing a complex collection bearing in mind the taught archive theory.

Lucy Vinten
Jan 15, 20183 min read


Personal papers of Thomas Corbishley SJ (1903-1976)
One of the Archives’ most recent cataloguing projects is the fascinating collection of personal papers of Fr Thomas Corbishley SJ...
Sally Kent
Jan 1, 20183 min read


The D'Arcy Papers
One of the Archives’ most frequently asked about collections unsurprisingly belongs to one of the most high-profile English Jesuits of...

Mary Allen
Jun 18, 20173 min read


Campion House, Osterley
One of my main tasks since starting in my position as Archives Assistant at the Jesuits in Britain Archive in September has been...

Lucy Vinten
Jan 9, 20172 min read


Cataloguing the Papers of the Cause of the Holy Martyrs
Since the closure of the Office of the Vice-Postulators at 114 Mount St c1984 the Archives have been the home of its records, although...

Mary Allen
Mar 14, 20163 min read


Farm St Alphabet Poem
In this blog we feature the Farm St alphabet poem written by Fr Frederick Hathaway SJ (1814-1891). While cataloguing the Farm St Church...

Mary Allen
Aug 16, 20153 min read


Hurricane devastation
Prompted by the discovery of two photographs the Archives team investigated what occurred at St John's College Belize, Honduras in 1931.

Rebecca Somerset
Jun 23, 20152 min read


Fr John Luck SJ's personal papers
A short summary of Jesuit John Luck and his collections of letters relating to his work as military chaplain in the First World War.

Mary Allen
Mar 16, 20153 min read
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