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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Rebecca Somerset
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Volunteering
"Volunteers have catalogued, transcribed, indexed, put on exhibitions, made phase boxes for antiquarian books, listed & photographed...
Mary Allen
Nov 23, 20204 min read
ArchI’ve Opened: How the Jesuits in Britain Archives are striving to be more accessible
Heythrop, Oxfordshire, 1960s. From our recently digitised negative collection Since 2015, the British Jesuit Archives have held an annual...
Rebecca Somerset
Nov 9, 20203 min read
Early history of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Britain
November marks 40 years since Pedro Arrupe SJ, the then Superior General of the Jesuits, set up the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in response
Mary Allen
Oct 26, 20204 min read
History of the Martyrs’ Cause on the 50th anniversary of the Forty Martyrs’ Canonisation
[Credit: Vatican Photo Service] This year, Sunday 25 October marked the 50th anniversary of the canonisation of the Forty Martyrs of...
Mary Allen
Oct 11, 20201 min read
The Archives in Numbers
This year, 20 October marks World Statistics Day, a day to highlight the importance of data for informed decision-making. The United...
Rebecca Somerset
Sep 27, 20205 min read
1715 Jacobite Rising & Jesuit Resources
[This blog post was originally published September 2015.] The 1715 Jacobite rising saw an attempt to regain the English throne for the...
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