A post that explores lessons learnt from preparing for extensive building work in an Archive with collections sent offsite.

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

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is not going to be forgotten any time soon, especially as we are still only just slowly starting to...

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

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

Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...

The outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...

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...