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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Lucy Vinten
Sep 27, 20206 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...
Mary Allen
Aug 31, 20203 min read
Fr Robert Whitty SJ
This year, 1 September marks the 125th anniversary of the death of former Provincial of the English Province, Fr Robert Whitty SJ. The...
Mary Allen
Aug 16, 20206 min read
Oral Histories
The outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...
Rebecca Somerset
Aug 2, 20205 min read
Barbados and the Parish of St Francis of Assisi
On 28 July 2020 the parish of St Francis of Assisi in Barbados was handed over to the local diocese after Michael Barrow SJ celebrated...
Lucy Vinten
Jul 19, 20204 min read
160 Years of Summer Holidays
For many of us, the idea of a summer holiday will be just a memory because of the coronavirus pandemic - but since 1853 Jesuit students...
Mary Allen
Jul 5, 20203 min read
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...
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