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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
A Day at the Manchester Universities' Catholic Chaplaincy
A visit to the Catholic Chaplaincy in Manchester to package an architectural drawing, assess church archives, and give a talk on the Holy Name Church's history.
Mary Allen
May 164 min read
150th Anniversary of the Holy Name Church, Manchester
This year, 15 October marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, or more commonly, the Holy Name
Mary Allen
Oct 4, 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
Flying Fr Vaughan
Just over 100 years ago, in April 1915, the renowned Jesuit preacher, Fr Bernard Vaughan, spent several days at Farnborough with Lord...
Mary Allen
Apr 27, 20204 min read
125th Anniversary St Ignatius College
On Friday 25 January 2020 the staff and pupils of St Ignatius College, Enfield attended a service at Westminster Cathedral to mark the...
Lucy Vinten
Feb 3, 20206 min read
Fr Cyril Martindale SJ
One of the Archive’s most recently completed cataloguing projects is the collection of personal papers of one of the Society’s most...
Alex Van Goethem
Jun 3, 20193 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 30, 20185 min read
St Aloysius' Church, Oxford
145 years ago, on the 20th of May 1873, Oscar Wilde and a companion were among a large crowd that watched as Dr William Bernard...
Mary Allen
May 21, 20184 min read
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