Cover of the book: picture of fragment of John’s Gospel Papyrus 52; early second century (housed at John Rylands Library, Manchester).

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : A handbook to second-century Christianity / Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower, editors. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Second officer’s log #1 Training new crew members (or in our case, work experience volunteers) comes with its own trials and tribulations. In my case, as Second Officer but primarily Cataloguer, I am tasked with breaking down cataloguing to its basic and most simple form. I have discovered that this can be way more difficult than it sounds! I can demonstrate the most basic…

Second officer’s log #1

Training new crew members (or in our case, work experience volunteers) comes with its own trials and tribulations. In my case, as Second Officer but primarily Cataloguer, I am tasked with breaking down cataloguing to its basic and most simple form. I have discovered that…

Changes to Opening Hours – tube strikes 2026! If the Tube Strike goes ahead as planned we will need to make the following changes to our opening hours: Monday 20 April 2026: open as normal (9:30 am - 5:30 pm) Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 April 2026: 11 am - 4 pm We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information about the strike: Transport for London:

Changes to Opening Hours – tube strikes 2026!

If the Tube Strike goes ahead as planned we will need to make the following changes to our opening hours: Monday 20 April 2026: open as normal (9:30 am - 5:30 pm) Tuesday 21 to Friday 24 April 2026: 11 am - 4 pm We are sorry for any inconvenience this…

Cover of the book: abstract art by Giuseppe Blasotta.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Platonic principles : essays in honor of Lloyd Gerson / edited by Carl Séan O'Brien and Sarah Klitenic Wear. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Our users in April 2026 In October 2025 we published a post 'Who are our users in October 2025?', and last month we offered a glimpse of where our users live by a news item Mapping our users: are you on it? What follows is not only an update on numbers, but also is a qualitative better report on our members in April 2026.

Our users in April 2026

In October 2025 we published a post 'Who are our users in October 2025?', and last month we offered a glimpse of where our users live by a news item Mapping our users: are you on it? What follows is not only an update on numbers, but also is a qualitative better report on…

9th and 10th Apr 2026: library open, but the LJC front door not open in the afternoon! We are open, as scheduled. See our opening hours. The London Jesuit Centre's reception will probably be unstaffed on Thursday (9 April 2026) and Friday (10 April 2026) in the afternoon, so the front door is likely to be closed. If that happens, please ring us on 020 7529 4843, or email us at heythroplibrary@jesuit.org.uk The Library is scheduled to be open on…

9th and 10th Apr 2026: library open, but the LJC front door not open in the afternoon!

We are open, as scheduled. See our opening hours. The London Jesuit Centre's reception will probably be unstaffed on Thursday (9 April 2026) and Friday (10 April 2026) in the afternoon, so the front door is…

Reminder opening hours : out of LJC term time! A‍s the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre finished in March, the Heythrop Library provides shorter opening hours until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am - 5.30pm Thursday 9.30am - 5.30pm Friday 9.30am - 4.30pm Saturday closed Sunday closed The first Saturday open of the new LJC term will be Mon 27th April 2026. Please always check our webpages for opening hours and closed days, before travelling:

Reminder opening hours : out of LJC term time!

A‍s the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre finished in March, the Heythrop Library provides shorter opening hours until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am - 5.30pm Thursday 9.30am - 5.30pm…

Cover of the book: illustration of the front door of a church.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Converts : from Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, why so many became Catholic in the 20th century / Melanie McDonagh. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Library online presentation All members of the Heythrop Library team plus the Campion Hall Librarian (Oxford) will give an online presentation about Jesuits Libraries. This is part of the Libraries of Faith series, which has been organized by the Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries (ABTAPL). ABTAPL is a membership organization which turns 70 years this year. Our talk will give you insights into the two off-site stores of the Heythrop Library, and the Heythrop Library books which are stored at Campion Hall Library.

Library online presentation

All members of the Heythrop Library team plus the Campion Hall Librarian (Oxford) will give an online presentation about Jesuits Libraries. This is part of the Libraries of Faith series, which has been organized by the Association of British Theological and…

List of books catalogue: March 2026 Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions, published after 2000. Here is a list of the books we catalogued in March 2026 (PDF).

List of books catalogue: March 2026

Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions, published after 2000. Here is a list of the books we catalogued in…

Cover of the book: title and author information with an outline of the Americas in purple in the background.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Engaging coloniality : the liberative story of Christianity in Latin America / edited by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Mark A. Lamport. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Photo of young man with sunglasses, in the background is a hilly landscape with some trees.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : God's influencer : a short biography of Carlo Acutis / Michael Collins. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

A series problem About 10 days ago we had an enquiry arrive in our inbox, which almost made my heart stop. Well, not really, but I know if someone asks about a serial in our collection (whether a scholarly journal or a magazine) this could spell trouble, or at least some cumbersome detective work. Indeed, we recently have applied for external funding to obtain money to finance a part-time project staff member for 5 years to rectify things.

A series problem

About 10 days ago we had an enquiry arrive in our inbox, which almost made my heart stop. Well, not really, but I know if someone asks about a serial in our collection (whether a scholarly journal or a magazine) this could spell trouble, or at least some cumbersome detective work.…

Cover of the book: image of 'The Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields; Celebration of High Mass on Christmas Day, 1841' (drawn by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, engraved by H. Melville).

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Catholics in London 1800-1850 / Jean Olwen Maynard. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Easter break 2026 We will be closed on Good Friday (3 April 2026) and Easter Monday (6 April 2026). Last day open before Easter: Maundy Thu (2nd April): 9:30-17:30.First day open after Easter: Tue (7th April): 9:30-18:30. Deadline for last requests before Easter: Tue 31st March, 2pm - for delivery on Wed 1st April. Deadline for last requests after Easter: Thu 2nd April, 2pm - for delivery on Tue 7th April. We are wishing you a Happy Easter!

Easter break 2026

We will be closed on Good Friday (3 April 2026) and Easter Monday (6 April 2026). Last day open before Easter: Maundy Thu (2nd April): 9:30-17:30.First day open after Easter: Tue (7th April): 9:30-18:30. Deadline for last requests before Easter: Tue 31st March, 2pm - for delivery…

Photo of the inside of a modern library building

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Analytic Islamic epistemology : critical debates / edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Girl on a beach in front of choppy waters.

Heythrop Institute Theology Seminars, 2025-26 @londonjesuit.bsky.social
Thu (26/03/26), 4:00 to 5:30pm! Dr Ashley Cocksworth - 'The Pathos of Joy'. More: londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/db8xi...
2 of the speaker's books hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha... #BePrepared #Seminars #Talks

Book cover, white stripe with black text against abstract red background.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Not a hope in hell / James Dominic Rooney. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Changing opening hours : end of LJC term time ‍To coincide with the end of the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre, Heythrop Library is returning to shorter opening hours, from Saturday 28 March 2026, until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am - 5.30pm Thursday 9.30am - 5.30pm Friday 9.30am - 4.30pm Saturday closed Sunday closed The first Saturday open of the new LJC term will be Mon 27th April 2026. Please always check our webpages for opening hours and closed days, before travelling:

Changing opening hours : end of LJC term time

‍To coincide with the end of the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre, Heythrop Library is returning to shorter opening hours, from Saturday 28 March 2026, until Sunday 26 April 2026. Monday 9.30am - 5.30pm Tuesday 9.30am - 6.30pm Wednesday 9.30am…

Against the backdrop of an image from the sky onto a rocky, lower landscape, some birds fly through he photo. Four images are placed at the bottom of the book cover: the first and fourth image is of Edith Stein; first as a younger woman in a white dress, the fourth image of her as a nun. The two middle images are of a painting of Stein in style of a saint with a golden halo, and then a statute made of stone.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : St. Edith Stein's aesthetic : beauty and sanctity: masterpiece of the divine artist / Elizabeth A. Mitchell. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Major texts on early Christianity, including the role of women.

#ExploringCollections
Heythrop Library
: featuring a selection of our holdings from the Mount Street Reading Room concerning #earlychristianity

You can browse our specialist book collection and see what you can discover for yourself here: hey.koha.openfifth.net/

Subject list : Jesuitica 1 Cover of The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The case of Europe (1939-1945), Heythrop Library copy at BX7460.8 SEC 2026. This is another instalment in a series of us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last six months (since 1 October 2025, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication.

Subject list : Jesuitica 1

Cover of The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The case of Europe (1939-1945), Heythrop Library copy at BX7460.8 SEC 2026. This is another instalment in a series of us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last six months (since 1…

Book cover shows a room with a small house altar, and at the centre a framed painting of Ignatius of Loyola.

#NewAcquisition
@heythroplib.bsky.social : The Second World War through Jesuit archives : the case of Europe (1939-1945) / edited by Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset and Christian Taoutel. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha...

Cover of the book: image of Orthodox icon of Jesus.

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Maynooth College reflects on catechesis in the life of the church / edited by Jeremy Corley, Andrew Meszaros, John Paul Sheridan. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Service disruption: Saturday 21 March 2026

This coming Saturday, 21st March 2026, the Heythrop Library will be impacted by the Open Day taking place at the London Jesuit Centre. Although the library will be operating with its usual Saturday opening hours of 9:30 am to 2 pm, there will be…

Book cover, white text against red abstract background

#NewAcquisition Heythrop Library : Sense and thought : a study in Mysticism / by Greta Hort, M.A., PhD., Sometime Pfeifer Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

Photo shows inside of a church, a wooden screen with the depiction of the crucifixion scene: with Jesus on the cross in the middle a woman to his right, and a man to his right. At each end of this group is an angel.

#NewAcqusition Heythrop Library: After Newman : a eulogy for Anglo-Catholics, 1845-1965 / Aidan Nichols, OP. Our catalogue record: hey.koha.openfifth.n...

List of New Acquisitions (12 Feb to 12 March 2026) Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions. For various reasons we hadn't managed to coax out something similar of Koha (our library management system since June 2025). Anywhere, here is a list of our acquisitions in the last 30 days in form (PDF).

List of New Acquisitions (12 Feb to 12 March 2026)

Those of you who have accompanied the Heythrop Library's activities in the last 4-5 years, might remember that we used a free online tool called LibraryThing to add all our new acquisitions. For various reasons we hadn't managed to coax out…

Our Journals : Biblische Zeitschrift In Our journals we introduce you to all our journals; currently, there are over 140 live journals we subscribe to. If you would like to explore this series, please click on Title of journal Biblische Zeitschrift Published since 1957 ISSN 0006-2014 (print) & 2589-0468 (online) Held at the Heythrop Library since 1998 Our catalogue record Subject(s) covered…

Our Journals : Biblische Zeitschrift

In Our journals we introduce you to all our journals; currently, there are over 140 live journals we subscribe to. If you would like to explore this series, please click on Title of journal Biblische Zeitschrift Published since 1957 ISSN 0006-2014 (print) &…

Mapping our users: are you on it? We are hoping to gain external funding for a project; and if you are one of our members and cannot see yourself on the map, especially if you live outside London, please contact us with your postal address. Of course, you might be reading this and are not yet a member of the Library: in that case see whether you would like to join us.

Mapping our users: are you on it?

We are hoping to gain external funding for a project; and if you are one of our members and cannot see yourself on the map, especially if you live outside London, please contact us with your postal address. Of course, you might be reading this and are not yet a…