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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.


Rebecca Somerset
Nov 8, 20223 min read
Celebrating Jubilees
This blog considers the importance of celebrating jubilees in light of recent and upcoming anniversaries.

Rebecca Somerset
Jan 6, 20224 min read
New Year Hopes
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...


Rebecca Somerset
Dec 10, 20216 min read
Planning a Move: 10 Lessons learnt
A post that explores lessons learnt from preparing for extensive building work in an Archive with collections sent offsite.


Rebecca Somerset
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Reflections on venturing into podcasting
Archivist Rebecca reflects on creating a first podcast for the British Jesuit Archives.

Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 min read
Reflections on creating our Relic Exhibition
On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...


Rebecca Somerset
Jan 18, 20213 min read
What 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 Allen
Jan 4, 20214 min read
A year in blog posts
2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...


Rebecca Somerset
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Volunteering
"Volunteers have catalogued, transcribed, indexed, put on exhibitions, made phase boxes for antiquarian books, listed & photographed...
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