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


Reflections on cataloguing personal papers
Jamie looks back on his experience cataloguing the personal papers of four Jesuit priests.
Jamie Hennessy Jackson
Jan 293 min read


Collaborative Cataloguing
A reflection on a new cataloguing approach attempted in September.
Rebecca Somerset
Nov 15, 20244 min read


Cataloguing the papers of Fr Frank Hannan, a Jesuit passionate in his support for blind Catholics
Our volunteer, Jane, reflects on the experience of cataloguing the papers of Fr Frank Hannan
Volunteer
Jul 24, 20242 min read


Centenary Anniversary of Loyola Hall
It is the centenary anniversary of the opening of Loyola Hall, a Jesuit retreat centre that operated between 1923 and 2014.
Alexander Taylor
Aug 7, 20234 min read


Work Experience in the Archives
Eddie Piron shares reflections on his work experience placement at the British Jesuit Archives.
Work Experience Placement
Oct 7, 20223 min read


Cataloguing Antiquarian Books at home and lessons learnt
A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal....
Lucy Vinten
Mar 15, 20215 min read


A Book Through Time
Book provenance is an area of research into the history of individual books and of libraries, focusing on who owned which books, and what...
Lucy Vinten
Sep 28, 20206 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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