Blog Posts

At this time of year, we often take time to reflect on the year just gone and set goals for the year ahead. Each of the Archives team...

A post that explores lessons learnt from preparing for extensive building work in an Archive with collections sent offsite.

Archivist Rebecca reflects on creating a first podcast for 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...

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...

"Volunteers have catalogued, transcribed, indexed, put on exhibitions, made phase boxes for antiquarian books, listed & photographed...

Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...

The outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...

9 June is International Archives Day. The day is intended to raise awareness among the public of the importance of records and archives,...

Working from home is tricky for archivists. The archive is shut, the material we work with is inaccessible. We can't bring a couple of...

The Jesuits in Britain Archives is full of letters – personal correspondence, circulars, letters to and from Fr Provincial and Fr...