This month Jonathan Bush outlines the Newman Associations, whose archives are now held in Ushaw College Library, initiatives in aiding Polish Catholic migrants in the 1940s-60s.

The photo is of a letter from F. R. MacGinnis to L. P. R. Roche highlighting the difficulties of importing material goods into Poland.

This month Barbara Vesey, Archivist for the Society of the Sacred Heart England and Wales, shares information about an upcoming exhibition relating to a war memorial at Roehampton.

This month the Jesuits in Britain Archive celebrate Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, who is remembered today as one of the greatest poets of his time.

Mary McHugh, Archivist for the Archdiocese of Glasgow, has contributed this months' blog post on the Piranesi exhibition at Blairs Museum. It emphasises the range and breadth of Catholic Heritage, and focuses on a museum this time. It also highlights what can be achieved by working jointly with a diocese.

A chain of events that links Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman with Meghan Markle might seem an unlikely scenario but this is exactly what William Johnstone (Assistant Archivist at Westminster Diocesan Archives) encountered while cataloguing some nineteenth century correspondence recently at Westminster Diocesan Archives.

The holdings at Ushaw College Library include the papers of the English College of SS Peter and Paul in Lisbon and this blog post one of its records is discussed.

The  Ireland and Scotland Provincial Archives of the Society of the Sacred Heart share a photograph used in an exhibition in Mount Anville School.

Welcome to Catholic Heritage’s no doubt eagerly awaited(!) and long-overdue (apologies) second blog post, this time created by the Society of the Sacred Heart (England and Wales Province) Archives. Here we share a drawing found in our collection.