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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Lucy Vinten
Feb 7, 20227 min read
Women in the Jesuit Rare Book Collection
The Jesuit collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books is not an obvious place to look for women, but in a recent blog post I...
Lucy Vinten
Mar 2, 20207 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
Jan 28, 20194 min read
Cataloguing Antiquarian Books
In this blog post, volunteer Lucy tells us about the fascinating process of cataloguing our historically important antiquarian book...
Mary Allen
Feb 19, 20184 min read
Robert Southwell's Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
St Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595), whose feast day is celebrated 21 February, is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonised...
Sally Kent
Oct 8, 20174 min read
Jesuits and the Lost Art of Letter Writing
The Jesuits in Britain Archives is full of letters – personal correspondence, circulars, letters to and from Fr Provincial and Fr...
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