The CAS have been liaising with the Religion and Collections group as we have mutual interests so please give their blog a follow! We were welcomed to post a summary about the CAS on their site which you can view below. They would welcome further blogs on religious material culture if there is anything in … Continue reading The Catholic Archives Society: Preserving the Nation’s Catholic Heritage
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Archive Update: The Irish Jesuit Archives
The Irish Jesuit Archives was closed for much of 2020 due to the global pandemic, and with Ireland in lockdown since early 2021, there is no sign of reopening anytime soon. So what has this home working archivist been up to? The positive experience of collaborating with Offaly Archives, in making available a collection of … Continue reading Archive Update: The Irish Jesuit Archives
The Centre for Catholic Studies Lecture Series
Save the date. Dr Carmen Mangion is talking on Tuesday 6th February at 6:00pm
The Centre for Catholic Studies’ Book Launch Series 2020-21
Starting out with 'English Convents in Catholic Europe,c.1600-1800' Co-hosted by the Durham University Centre for Catholic Studies and Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Wednesday 7 October 2020 5.30-6.45pm BST, by Zoom. To register for zoom and get full details of the book launch series see the CCS website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/ccs/events/booklaunchseries/
Online training opportunities
The London Museum Development team is now uploading recordings of its training sessions on its new YouTube channel. Courses already uploaded include ‘Introduction to Social Media Strategy: Creating a Strategy from Scratch’, with more to come soon.
Reflections on lockdown
The Jesuits in Britain Archives has produced two blog posts that relate to the lockdown and remote working which may be of interest. They can be found here and here.
Resources for reopening Archives
The ‘Re-opening The National Archives’ webinar, which was streamed live last week, is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYcaUJL3gd4. This webinar provides information for colleagues in the archive sector on The National Archives’ own approach to re-opening. Each archive service needs to be guided by their own circumstances in relation to re-opening; in order to help with this, … Continue reading Resources for reopening Archives
CAS Council updated
At a recent Council meeting Jonathan Bush was elected as new Chair of the Catholic Archives Society. He thanked his predecessor, Judith Smeaton, for all her efforts and hard work. As several Council members' terms had ended, three new members were co-opted. They are Claire Marsland, Naomi Johnson and Jenny Smith. The full Council list … Continue reading CAS Council updated
VEC blog post on epidemic
Fr Nicholas Schofield has been producing blog posts for the English College in Rome and his most recent blog post is very topical on the cholera epidemic of 1837 in Rome. You can read this blog post here and find other blog posts of VEC here.
Working from home
Recently on the Archives NRA jiscmail list the following list of online learning source and ideas for those working from home was shared. This might be of interest. Free Courses:• Connecting to Collections Care https://www.connectingtocollections.org/ has their webinars archived and available online - a lot of great information for a variety of institutions and collections, archives included. … Continue reading Working from home



