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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Rebecca Somerset
Dec 10, 20216 min read
Planning a Move: 10 Lessons learnt
A post that explores lessons learnt from preparing for extensive building work in an Archive with collections sent offsite.
Lucy Vinten
Mar 15, 20215 min read
Cataloguing Antiquarian Books at home and lessons learnt
A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal....
Rebecca Somerset
Jan 18, 20213 min read
What did we learn from 2020?
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic is not going to be forgotten any time soon, especially as we are still only just slowly starting to...
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...
Rebecca Somerset
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Volunteering
"Volunteers have catalogued, transcribed, indexed, put on exhibitions, made phase boxes for antiquarian books, listed & photographed...
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...
Mary Allen
Aug 16, 20206 min read
Oral Histories
The outbreak of Coronavirus saw Jesuit novices Dunstan Rodrigues and Sam Dixon abruptly leaving their experiment in Dublin – a six-week...
Lucy Vinten
May 24, 20206 min read
Lockdown: What We've Been Doing
Working from home is tricky for archivists. The archive is shut, the material we work with is inaccessible. We can't bring a couple of...
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