John Carroll and the Maryland Mission
The Jesuit presence in Maryland dates back to the arrival of English settlers in the area now known as St Mary’s City on the Potomac...
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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Sally Kent
Mar 5, 20183 min read
Fr James Etheridge Arrives in Guyana
Account of the establishment of a Jesuit mission in Guyana in 1857.
Lucy Vinten
Jan 15, 20183 min read
Making sense of a complex collection
A blog exploring the reality of cataloguing a complex collection bearing in mind the taught archive theory.
Sally Kent
Jan 1, 20183 min read
Personal papers of Thomas Corbishley SJ (1903-1976)
One of the Archives’ most recent cataloguing projects is the fascinating collection of personal papers of Fr Thomas Corbishley SJ...
Mary Allen
Oct 30, 20173 min read
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
As the UK prepares for the annual Bonfire Night celebrations, the BBC will be airing the final episode of its ‘explosive’ three-part...
Mary Allen
Oct 24, 20174 min read
The Reformation and the Jesuits in England
A brief exploration of the effect Martin Luther's reformation had on the Jesuits in England.
Mary Allen
Jun 18, 20173 min read
The D'Arcy Papers
One of the Archives’ most frequently asked about collections unsurprisingly belongs to one of the most high-profile English Jesuits of...
Lucy Vinten
Apr 9, 20174 min read
Jesuit Missionaries' Dictionaries and Vocabularies
On 15 April 1755, Dr Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language. In the previous 150 years over 20 English dictionaries had...
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