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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
Dec 17, 20213 min read


To make a Marmolet of Apricots: A Recipe from the Flyleaves
Many of the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian book collection contain re-used paper or other material, usually as part of the binding or as...

Lucy Vinten
Sep 6, 20213 min read


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
Dec 21, 20205 min read


Reduce, Reuse, Recycle the 17th Century Way
World Book Day falls on 5 March this year, and this blog post will look at some of the antiquarian books in the Jesuit Archives which I...

Lucy Vinten
Mar 2, 20207 min read
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