Discover rare books, relics and historic documents from the Jesuit collections at Mount Street

Founded in 1896, the Hall opened the way for Jesuits to study at Oxford University

You are invited to the launch of The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939–1945), a collaborative publication drawing on Jesuit archival material from across Europe. Co‑edited by Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset and Christian Taoutel, the richly illustrated book highlights the daily realities of Jesuits, as individuals and communities in their wider social contexts, ranging from relative safety for some, to the full extent of the war’s upheavals and violence for others.

World Book Day falls on 5 March this year, and this blog post will look at some of the antiquarian books in the Jesuit Archives which I have been cataloguing recently. I have been struck by how many of the books which retain their older bindings – that is, those which were not re-bound in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries -- contain re-used materials. ‘Reduce Reuse Recycle’ is a current concept, and one which we should all try to put into practice, but it is not a new idea. Our parents and

A volunteers perspective of working with eighteenth century books at the British Jesuit Archives.

349 years ago for four days a major fire burnt in London. The Great Fire of London swept through the city from 2 to 5 September 1666, and destroyed many buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral. As the fire burnt, the inhabitants looked for culprits and so foreigners and Catholics were attacked. During the Popish Plot, Titus Oates accused the Jesuits of setting the fire. An article, written by the historian and former Province Archivist Thomas McCoog SJ, on the religious and political landscape i

The Archives team takes photos comparing Heythrop Hall today with how it looked 100 years ago.

Amongst very hot weather, I spent a week doing work experience with the British Jesuit Archives.

This blogpost looks at Jesuit missionary activity in England in the 17th and 18th centuries, focussing on books in relation to one small Jesuit mission station at Southend Farm in Soberton, Sussex.

The Archives team takes photos comparing Heythrop Hall today with how it looked 100 years ago.