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

Rebecca Somerset

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

Celebrating Jubilees

This blog considers the importance of celebrating jubilees in light of recent and upcoming anniversaries.

Mary Allen

Festive Highlights

Some festive favourites from the British Jesuit Archives. Br Thomas Moore's Christmas pudding recipe (ref. SJ/29/6) In the 1930s, Novices...

Mary Allen

160th Anniversary: The Jesuits Take Possession of Manresa House, Roehampton

On 25 September 1861 Fr Alfred Weld (Rector of Beaumont Lodge and Director of Novices) met Fr Henry McCann, Procurator of the Province,...

Mary Allen

Festive Celebrations

Christmas 2020 looks set to be a Christmas like no other. Traditionally a time spent with family and friends, thanks to the global...

Mary Allen

80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Between 10 July and 31 October 1940,the German Air Force waged an air...

Mary Allen

Jesuit Life During the Second World War

2020 marks the 80th anniversary of the first full year of the Second World War. One event that took place early in this year was the...

Lucy Vinten

A History of the Jesuit Noviceship

The feast day of St Stanislaus Kostka SJ, patron saint of Jesuit novices, is 13 November. St Stanislaus was born in 1550, and faced great...