Lucy, Archives Assistant at the Jesuits in Britain Archives, has written about attending a Catholic Archives Society training day as well as an in-house training session. To read this blog visit: https://www.jesuit.org.uk/blog/archives-what-do-when-disaster-strikes
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Booking deadline
If you wish to attend the annual Catholic Archives Society conference you have one week before the booking deadline on 1 May 2018. Details for the conference including booking form can be found here. If your booking is likely to be delayed please contact Sr Benignus as soon as possible to advise her of this … Continue reading Booking deadline
Manage your collections
Manage Your Collections, launched in 2017, allows archive services the opportunity to contribute full catalogue descriptions to Discovery, The National Archives aggregator for UK archival collections, or to update content previously contributed through the Access to Archives project. Discovery contains catalogue data from over 400 archives, also providing high-level information about records held in another … Continue reading Manage your collections
CFP Missionaries, Modernity and Education
Call for Proposals Missionaries, Modernity and Education (MiMoRA), Leuven, 13-21 September 2018 Over the past years, the history and impact of missionary movements have become of interest to diverse disciplines within the humanities, including anthropology, theology, architecture and heritage studies, history, and educational sciences. However, this interdisciplinary booming of the field has also led to … Continue reading CFP Missionaries, Modernity and Education
Jesuit Archive closed
Please be advised that the Jesuits in Britain Archives will be closed for refurbishment work for the month of April. Remote enquiries will still be dealt with.
RAG conference 2018
The Religious Archives Group Conference will be held on Thursday 10th May 2018. The theme of this year’s Conference will be Military Chaplaincy during WW1 and it will be hosted by the Archives at King’s College London, home to the Liddell Hart Military Archives. Further details and the booking form can be found here: https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk/conferences/conferences/ … Continue reading RAG conference 2018
Conference 2018 details
The full programme and booking form for the Catholic Archives Society annual conference can now be found online here.
Archives Directory
We have been adding to the Archives Directory and the following services have provided details recently: Douai Abbey Library & Archive Leeds Diocesan Archives Northampton Diocesan Archives In addition, we have been expanding on the information contained in the archives directory to include details about collecting policies, see for example Jesuits in Britain Archives and … Continue reading Archives Directory
CFP urbanisation of Catholic communities
CFP volume of essays examining the urbanisation of Catholic communities in England in the generation after the Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791. (18 George III c. 60 and 31 George III. c. 32.) The great majority of this post-Relief generation of lay Catholics lived by profit made in trade and manufacture, or in the provision … Continue reading CFP urbanisation of Catholic communities
Making sense of a complex collection
The Archives Assistant of the Jesuits in Britain Archives is currently studying alongside her position for a professional qualification in Archives and Records Management. Having the practical experience to complement the theory and principles taught on the course is invaluable, however, as many of the CAS members will know the reality of tasks such as … Continue reading Making sense of a complex collection
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