Lucy Vinten
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...
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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Rebecca Somerset
Jan 6, 20224 min read
New Year Hopes
At this time of year, we often take time to reflect on the year just gone and set goals for the year ahead. Each of the Archives team...
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....
Lucy Vinten
Feb 15, 20217 min read
A Tale of Two Printers
Lockdown and working from home has meant that I have not been able to continue with cataloguing the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book...
Mary Allen
Jan 4, 20214 min read
A year in blog posts
2020 was, to say the least, a strange year for everybody, thanks to the global pandemic. For the British Jesuit Archives it meant closing...
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...
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...
Lucy Vinten
May 24, 20206 min read
Lockdown: What We've Been Doing
Working from home is tricky for archivists. The archive is shut, the material we work with is inaccessible. We can't bring a couple of...
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