Blog Posts

The Jesuit collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books is not an obvious place to look for women, but in a recent blog post I...

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...

A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal....

Lockdown and working from home has meant that I have not been able to continue with cataloguing the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book...

2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...

Book provenance is an area of research into the history of individual books and of libraries, focusing on who owned which books, and what...

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...

It is that joyful time of year once again, and here at the Archives we are feeling particularly festive. We have decided to usher in the...

This week’s blog post has been written by our most recent work experience student, Evangeline Mills. Read on to find out what she did and...

Earlier in the summer, recent graduate Michael Daniel carried out a two-week work experience placement at the Jesuits in Britain...

In this blog post, volunteer Lucy tells us about the fascinating process of cataloguing our historically important antiquarian book...

This week's blog post has been guest-written by work experience student, Natasha Wilkinson. Hello! My name is Natasha Wilkinson, I am 16...

As this week sees the relics of St Claude La Colombière SJ and St Margaret Mary Alacoque visiting Farm Street Church it seemed...