Welcome to 2026! I hope that you had a good non-festering season. Unless you did not engage with any form of media you will also have noticed many reviews of the last 12 months. If you haven’t had enough of those, and need lots of details, please go to or if you want to have my Heythrop Library-related review of…

From Monday 12 January we will be open for longer again, to support the teaching and learing at the London Jesuit Centre: Mondays-Thursdays: 9:30am to 6:30pm Fridays: 9:30am to 6pm Saturdays: 9:30am to 2pm Please always check our web page for changes to the opening hours, especially if you are travelling from further away from London. The second LJC term of 2025-26 ends on 27 March 2026.

The scheduled upgrade to our library management system seems to have been completed. Some functionality is not yet back. If you spot anything which does not work the way you were hoping for, please let us know/contact us. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused. Books can be borrowed or returned as normal.

We have a scheduled upgrade to our library management system on Thursday 8 January 2026. This will mean that our catalogue will be down. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused. Books can be returned as normal.

Happy New Year to all Heythrop Library members, and those who are thinking about becoming members. We are open again. This is the last week of non-LJC teaching time opening hours, so: Mon, Wed & Thu: 9:30-17:30 Tue: 9:30-18:30 Fri: 9:30-16:30 Sat & Sun closed

Today is the last of services before Christmas: Tuesday 23 December 2025, 9:30 am – 6:30 pm. Wednesday 24 December 2025 to Friday 2 January 2026 – closed The first day of service after Christmas: Monday 5 January 2026, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm. Please always check our web page for changes to the opening hours , especially if you are travelling from further away from London. The Heythrop Library team wishes you a joyful Christmas!

This is the second part of a two-part post written by Professor Jane Stevenson, Senior Research Fellow in English, Book History, and Women’s Studies at Campion Hall, Oxford, about a manuscript in the Heythrop Library collection currently housed at Campion Hall. The published version and its relation to the manuscripts Title-page of the 1855 London reprint The Life of Dorothy Lawson…

As we prepare to wind down the Heythrop Library services, here a quick reminder of when we will process the last off-site store requests, our opening hours, when we are closed, and when we'll resume services in 2026! Opening hours and when we are closed For opening hours and closures - please see our page Last and first requests for materials from our offsite store…

Now, I’m not being overly pessimistic, but unless you are a cataloguer or meta-data specialist who knows their Marc21, 505 probably doesn’t mean much. Okay, there might the A505 going past your house, or that road might have taken you to places, or there might be another, worldly meaning of this sequence of digits, but unless you create Marc21 records you probably don’t think about cataloguing!

This is one of the few manuscripts in the Heythrop College Library collection, and is currently held at Campion Hall, Oxford. This blog post in two parts contains observations on the manuscript by Professor Jane Stevenson, Senior Research Fellow in English, Book History, and Women’s Studies at Campion Hall. (A description of the manuscript can be found here: BX2079 LAW/PAL 1799…

‍To coincide with the end of the teaching term at the London Jesuit Centre, Heythrop Library is returning to shorter opening hours, from Saturday 6 December 2025, until Sunday 11 January 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 12th January 2026. Please always check our webpages for opening hours and closed days, before travelling:

Please be aware that from 3 December 2025, we might need up to 2-working days to process your membership, or register as a new member. We will process your application or renewal as soon as possible. The Library is closed after 23 December 2025, and we are scheduled to re-open on the 5 January 2026. Whilst we are closed no processing will happen - human intervention is needed.