British Jesuit Archives

01/09/2026

🗓️ Save the date! Join us Wednesday 7 October for the Heythrop Library and British Jesuit Archives Open Day.

Discover our collections, explore the library and archives, and find out more about the resources available to researchers & visitors.

📍 London Jesuit Centre
🕥 10:30–16:30

31/08/2026

It's the !

How are you spending yours? If unsure, take a cue from early C20th , who were messing about in boats, going to the pub, taking a coach tour, and riding bicycles.

27/08/2026

27 August is the Feast Day of St David Lewis SJ, Martyred 1679

Learn more at our online exhibition:
https://www.jesuitcollections.org.uk/lewis

26/08/2026

The printers device used Martin Boillon an early C16th printer in Lyon.
From a 1507 copy of The Life of Jesus Christ by Ludolph the Saxon, in our collection.

25/08/2026

100 years ago, Fr William Bodkin SJ arrived at , Oxfordshire, taking up his post as first Rector of the Province's new Collegium Maximum.

You can read about the Archive team's visit to Heythrop in celebration of this centenary here: https://tinyurl.com/37ehjk7v

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

20/08/2026

A reminder of our annual closure for the month of September.

19/08/2026

Apparently, it's today.

In honour of this auspicious occasion, take a look at this rather dramatic framing of beliefs circulating in the Jesuit community at St John's Beaumont, with a sardonic reply. It may seem trivial, but a community marches on its stomach!

18/08/2026

Our new post is live! 🚨

Work experience student Kit reflects on his week spent with the Archives team, where he assisted us with everything from antiquarian book cataloguing, re-packaging Guyanese photographs, to identifying 19th century Jesuits.

Read it here:

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

03/08/2026

This month marks 100 years since the opening of Heythrop College, Oxfordshire. This newly discovered photo lends credence to oft-quoted tales of camels wandering past scholastics, as Chipperfield circus wintered its exotic animals in the Heythrop grounds!

31/07/2026

Today is the Feast Day of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus.

This relic of St Ignatius is one of the highlights of our collections.