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


A visit to assess the Jesuit Guyana Archives
Archivist Rebecca reflects on a visit to assess the Jesuit archive material in Guyana.

Rebecca Somerset
Sep 29, 20236 min read


A Catholic translation of Bede’s History
This blogpost discusses Thomas Stapleton’s 1656 translation of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. It looks at...

Lucy Vinten
May 31, 20237 min read


Celebrating Jubilees
This blog considers the importance of celebrating jubilees in light of recent and upcoming anniversaries.

Rebecca Somerset
Nov 8, 20223 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
Jan 6, 20224 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
Dec 10, 20216 min read


Reflections on venturing into podcasting
Archivist Rebecca reflects on creating a first podcast for the British Jesuit Archives.

Rebecca Somerset
Nov 4, 20213 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
Mar 29, 20216 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...

Rebecca Somerset
Jan 18, 20213 min read
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