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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Mary Allen
May 23, 20214 min read
Celebrating the Ignatian Year
This year, 20 May marks the 500th anniversary of the injury that Ignatius of Loyola received at Pamplona, sparking his conversion.
Mary Allen
May 9, 20214 min read
Fr Leo O'Hea SJ
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Father Leo O'Hea SJ (1881–1976).
Mary Allen
Apr 25, 20213 min read
Gerard Strickland & Chaplains in the Crimean War
This year, 26 April marks the 165th anniversary of the death of Fr Gerard Strickland SJ, a Jesuit army chaplain, during the Crimean War....
Mary Allen
Apr 11, 20212 min read
When an object becomes sacred
In 2018, shortly before the final closure of Heythrop College, some very special items arrived at the British Jesuit Archives.
Rebecca Somerset
Mar 28, 20216 min read
Reflections on creating our Relic Exhibition
On 1 March 2021 the virtual relic exhibition, How bleedeth burning love, launched. This was a very exciting, and by then long...
Lucy Vinten
Mar 15, 20215 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....
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