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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Alexander Taylor
Apr 20, 20234 min read
Jesuit Sailors: Fr Law & Fr Kerr
Brief overview of two Jesuits who led remarkable lives in the Royal Navy before entering the Society of Jesus.
Lucy Vinten
Jul 29, 20185 min read
Two Years as Archives Assistant
To date, the Archives have supported two part-time Archives Assistants, with the aim of helping prospective archivists into the...
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...
Lucy Vinten
Apr 9, 20174 min read
Jesuit Missionaries' Dictionaries and Vocabularies
On 15 April 1755, Dr Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language. In the previous 150 years over 20 English dictionaries had...
Mary Allen
Dec 5, 20162 min read
Archive Open Day 2016
On 29 December we once again opened their doors to give staff and community members a glimpse at some of the treasures held within the...
Mary Allen
Jul 31, 20163 min read
Fr Augustus Law SJ and the Zambezi Mission
A short outline of Fr Augustus Law SJ, a founding father of St Aidan's College in South Africa in 1867.
Mary Allen
Feb 18, 20152 min read
Cary-Elwes' photograph collection
Short reflection on the Jesuit Cary-Elwes photography of his work as a missionary in Guyana.
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