Mary AllenDec 17, 20213 minFestive HighlightsSome festive favourites from the British Jesuit Archives. Br Thomas Moore's Christmas pudding recipe (ref. SJ/29/6) In the 1930s, Novices...
Alex Van GoethemMar 16, 20204 minCelebrating Mothering SundayMothering Sunday falls on 22nd March this year. Historically Mothering Sunday has been celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, in the...
Alex Van GoethemJun 3, 20193 minFr Cyril Martindale SJOne of the Archive’s most recently completed cataloguing projects is the collection of personal papers of one of the Society’s most...
Alex Van GoethemMar 11, 20192 minCelebrations of St Aloysius GonzagaWith the Jubilee year for the 450th anniversary of the birth of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga coming toa close on March 9, 2019 we decided to...
Mary AllenJul 2, 20183 minOn the Anniversary of Fr Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJThis year, 9 July marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Fr Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJ. According to his obituary in Letters and...
Mary AllenMay 21, 20184 minSt Aloysius' Church, Oxford145 years ago, on the 20th of May 1873, Oscar Wilde and a companion were among a large crowd that watched as Dr William Bernard...
Mary AllenApr 23, 20185 minCelebrating Jesuit WritersOn 23 April 1995, UNESCO proclaimed the first World Book and Copyright Day. For world literature, this is a symbolic date: it is the day...
Sally KentOct 9, 20174 minJesuits and the Lost Art of Letter WritingThe Jesuits in Britain Archives is full of letters – personal correspondence, circulars, letters to and from Fr Provincial and Fr...