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


Work in Progress 2
The second in a series in which the archives team shares what they have been doing over the last few months.
Rebecca Somerset
Oct 25, 20245 min read


175th Anniversary of Farm Street Church
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair, otherwise known as Farm Street Church.
Mary Allen
Jul 3, 20244 min read


Fourth Centenary Exhibition Review
Archivist Rebecca reviews the recent exhibition that the Archives put on to mark the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Province.
Rebecca Somerset
Jan 31, 20233 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


When an object becomes sacred
In 2018, shortly before the final closure of Heythrop College, some very special items arrived at the British Jesuit Archives.
Mary Allen
Apr 11, 20212 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 28, 20216 min read

How Bleedeth Burning Love: A history of the Martyrs’ Cause
Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...
Mary Allen
Mar 1, 20214 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
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