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Rebecca Somerset

1715 Jacobite Rising & Jesuit Resources

[This blog post was originally published September 2015.] The 1715 Jacobite rising saw an attempt to regain the English throne for the...

Lucy Vinten

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...

Sally Kent

John Carroll and the Maryland Mission

The Jesuit presence in Maryland dates back to the arrival of English settlers in the area now known as St Mary’s City on the Potomac...

Will Mann

The Mystery of the Missing Manuscript

The 30th January marks the anniversary of the death of Fr Thomas Falkner SJ at Norton, Shropshire, in 1784. Author of the book...