Mary Allen
150th Anniversary of the Holy Name Church, Manchester
This year, 15 October marks the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, or more commonly, the Holy Name
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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
Apr 26, 20204 min read
Flying Fr Vaughan
Just over 100 years ago, in April 1915, the renowned Jesuit preacher, Fr Bernard Vaughan, spent several days at Farnborough with Lord...
Lucy Vinten
Feb 3, 20206 min read
125th Anniversary St Ignatius College
On Friday 25 January 2020 the staff and pupils of St Ignatius College, Enfield attended a service at Westminster Cathedral to mark the...
Alex Van Goethem
Jun 2, 20193 min read
Fr Cyril Martindale SJ
One of the Archive’s most recently completed cataloguing projects is the collection of personal papers of one of the Society’s most...
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...
Mary Allen
May 20, 20184 min read
St Aloysius' Church, Oxford
145 years ago, on the 20th of May 1873, Oscar Wilde and a companion were among a large crowd that watched as Dr William Bernard...
Sally Kent
Nov 22, 20173 min read
ArchI've Discovered Open Day
As part of the annual Explore Your Archive campaign, the Jesuits in Britain Archives held an open day on Tuesday 21st November 2017....
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