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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Rebecca Somerset
Oct 255 min read
Work in Progress 2
The second in a series in which the archives team shares what they have been doing over the last few months.
Mary Allen
Jul 34 min read
175th Anniversary of Farm Street Church
This year marks the 175th anniversary of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair, otherwise known as Farm Street Church.
Rebecca Somerset
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Fourth Centenary Exhibition Review
Archivist Rebecca reviews the recent exhibition that the Archives put on to mark the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Province.
Rebecca Somerset
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Reflections on venturing into podcasting
Archivist Rebecca reflects on creating a first podcast for the British Jesuit Archives.
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...
Mary Allen
Mar 1, 20214 min read
How Bleedeth Burning Love: A history of the Martyrs’ Cause
Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell, from which the exhibition's title is taken Veneration of the English and Welsh Martyrs of the...
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...
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