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


ArchI’ve Opened: How the Jesuits in Britain Archives are striving to be more accessible
Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...
Mary Allen
Nov 23, 20204 min read

The Archives in Numbers
This year, 20 October marks World Statistics Day, a day to highlight the importance of data for informed decision-making. The United...
Mary Allen
Oct 11, 20201 min read

Oral Histories
The outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...
Mary Allen
Aug 16, 20206 min read


Ask an Archivist
9 June is International Archives Day. The day is intended to raise awareness among the public of the importance of records and archives,...
Mary Allen
Jun 7, 20208 min read


Lockdown: What We've Been Doing
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...
Lucy Vinten
May 24, 20206 min read

ArchI've Celebrated
As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect on some of the anniversaries that the Archives have researched this year. A universally commemorated...
Rebecca Somerset
Dec 31, 20182 min read

Two Years as Archives Assistant
To date, the Archives have supported two part-time Archives Assistants, with the aim of helping prospective archivists into the...
Lucy Vinten
Jul 29, 20185 min read


1966 World Football Cup
Even the most apathetic will be aware that the World Football Cup has recently been taking place. The 21st tournament, which has been...
Rebecca Somerset
Jul 15, 20183 min read
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