Author: Clemens Gresser

  • Google Map with a marker on where the Heythrop Library is, next to Mount Street Gardens. Celebrating 100,000 views in August 2026.

    Captain’s log #8

    Captain’s log. 4 September 2026. As the Library has just turned 100, a slightly longer Captain’s log might be in order. The Library’s 100th is measured from the point of it being called Heythrop (College) Library, and your captain is coming up to his anniversary (21 September 2021, when he took his seat at the…

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  • Mosaic of 12 book covers (Theology books acquired since October 2025)

    Subject list: Theology 1

    This is another instalment in a series of us providing subject lists of (post-2000) books we have added in the last seven months (since 1 October 2025, the beginning of our financial year). The list is sorted by date of publication. We hope that these lists will help to share what we have bought or added in…

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  • Invoice from Blackwell's showing books purchased, and their cost.

    Captain’s log #7

    You won’t believe this! Unless you are one of the Heythrop Library Crew, a member of the Heythrop Library Committee, or a Trustee of the Jesuits in Britain, you will not know how much it costs to run the Heythrop Library. Most people might assume that we get some kind of funding, but a lot…

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