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


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


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...

Mary Allen
Jan 4, 20214 min read


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

Rebecca Somerset
Dec 7, 20203 min read


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 12, 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 17, 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 8, 20208 min read
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