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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.


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
Feb 7, 20227 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
Mar 2, 20207 min read


Cataloguing Antiquarian Books
In this blog post, volunteer Lucy tells us about the fascinating process of cataloguing our historically important antiquarian book...

Lucy Vinten
Jan 28, 20194 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...

Mary Allen
Feb 19, 20184 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...
Sally Kent
Oct 9, 20174 min read
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