Rebecca SomersetJan 64 minNew Year HopesAt 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...
Rebecca SomersetDec 10, 20216 minPlanning a Move: 10 Lessons learntA post that explores lessons learnt from preparing for extensive building work in an Archive with collections sent offsite.
Rebecca SomersetNov 4, 20213 minReflections on venturing into podcastingArchivist Rebecca reflects on creating a first podcast for the British Jesuit Archives.
Rebecca SomersetMar 28, 20216 minReflections on creating our Relic ExhibitionOn 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...
Rebecca SomersetJan 18, 20213 minWhat did we learn from 2020?The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is not going to be forgotten any time soon, especially as we are still only just slowly starting to...
Mary AllenJan 4, 20214 minA year in blog posts2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...
Rebecca SomersetDec 7, 20203 minVolunteering"Volunteers have catalogued, transcribed, indexed, put on exhibitions, made phase boxes for antiquarian books, listed & photographed...
Mary AllenNov 23, 20204 minArchI’ve Opened: How the Jesuits in Britain Archives are striving to be more accessibleHeythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...
Mary AllenAug 16, 20206 minOral HistoriesThe outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...
Mary AllenJun 7, 20208 minAsk an Archivist9 June is International Archives Day. The day is intended to raise awareness among the public of the importance of records and archives,...
Lucy Vinten MattichMay 24, 20206 minLockdown: What We've Been DoingWorking from home is tricky for archivists. The archive is shut, the material we work with is inaccessible. We can't bring a couple of...
Sally KentOct 8, 20174 minJesuits and the Lost Art of Letter WritingThe Jesuits in Britain Archives is full of letters – personal correspondence, circulars, letters to and from Fr Provincial and Fr...