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Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.


Mary Allen
May 14, 20244 min read
Gerard Manley Hopkins Exhibition
On Saturday 27 April The Hopkins Society visited the Archives for an exhibition on the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.


Lucy Vinten
Jul 19, 20204 min read
160 Years of Summer Holidays
For many of us, the idea of a summer holiday will be just a memory because of the coronavirus pandemic - but since 1853 Jesuit students...


Alex Van Goethem
Aug 25, 20197 min read
425 Years of Stonyhurst College
The closing of the 2018/9 academic year marks exactly 425 years since the creation of Stonyhurst College and its predecessors, and the...

Rebecca Somerset
Dec 31, 20182 min read
ArchI've Celebrated
As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect on some of the anniversaries that the Archives have researched this year. A universally commemorated...


Mary Allen
Aug 26, 20183 min read
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A brief outline of his life to commemorate 150 years since Hopkins entered 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...

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...


Lucy Vinten
Jan 15, 20183 min read
Making sense of a complex collection
A blog exploring the reality of cataloguing a complex collection bearing in mind the taught archive theory.
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