This online exhibition, inspired by the 400th anniversary of the foundation of the English (later British) Jesuit Province, looks at all the books in the British Jesuit Archive's Antiquarian Book Collection which were published in 1623.

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The thirteen works encompass anti-Protestant controversial writing, devotional literature, Lives of saints, martyrs and holy men, conversion stories and more.  As objects, these books retain signs of how they have been owned and cared for over the 4 centuries since they were printed.

This exhibition, in collaboration with Stonyhurst College, tells the story of Helena Wintour, who operated at the centre of a recusant network with close ties to Jesuit missionaries. Creating illegal vestments, she was forced to operate in secret under threat of exposure. Although her name was tainted by association with the most notorious attempt at terrorism of the 17th century, the Gunpowder Plot, she persisted in this dangerous, subversive work, and defiantly embroidered her name on the vestments.

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Her life story is told here through a documentary, and Stonyhurst College Curator, Dr Jan Graffius, introduces her 6 surviving vestments in a series of short videos.