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Blog Posts
Read about our latest news, collection highlights, and reflections.
Lucy Vinten
Feb 7, 20227 min read
Women in the Jesuit Rare Book Collection
The Jesuit collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books is not an obvious place to look for women, but in a recent blog post I...
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...
Alex Van Goethem
Mar 16, 20204 min read
Celebrating Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday falls on 22nd March this year. Historically Mothering Sunday has been celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent, in the...
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...
Mary Allen
Jun 30, 20193 min read
The English Mission Becomes a Vice-Province
This year 6 July marks the 400th anniversary of the date that the English Mission became a Vice-Province of the Society of Jesus. In this...
Mary Allen
Aug 12, 20184 min read
On the Anniversary of Fr Marmaduke Stone SJ
An overview of Jesuit Father Marmaduke Stone's life and reference to the suppression and restoration of the Society of Jesus.
Mary Allen
Oct 24, 20174 min read
The Reformation and the Jesuits in England
A brief exploration of the effect Martin Luther's reformation had on the Jesuits in England.
Will Mann
Apr 24, 20161 min read
Shakespeare
The discovery, in December 2014, of a hitherto unknown First Folio of the works of Shakespeare at St Omer, likely to be an overlooked...
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