https://www.vecheritage.org/blog daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539125263385-KWA4LUB72RBQEOC2DQD2/liber-ruber.jpg Tales from the Collections https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2026/the-liber-farnese-between-dynastic-heraldry-and-botany-at-the-venerable-english-college-in-rome monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/08469031-70bd-451a-93f5-fd7df4729ff5/Domenichino%2C_Cardinal_Odoardo_Farnese%2C_gia%CC%80_Roma%2C_Palazzo_Farnese.tif.png Tales from the Collections - The 'Liber Farnese': Between Dynastic Heraldry and Botany at the Venerable English College in Rome - Make it stand out Portrait of Cardinal Odoardo Farnese by Domenichino, c.1602-1603, Palazzo Farnese. ©Andrea Ciaroni and licensed under Creative Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenichino,_Cardinal_Odoardo_Farnese,_già_Roma,_Palazzo_Farnese.tif https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/004d5fb5-e4e7-48bd-bd8e-fe96976820f8/Catafalque+3r+%C2%A9Marcin+Mazur.jpg Tales from the Collections - The 'Liber Farnese': Between Dynastic Heraldry and Botany at the Venerable English College in Rome - Make it stand out The catafalque (folio 3r) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/7eacbd88-4f8e-4e7c-a13a-9d1af55d90d0/2nd+panel+8R+%C2%A9Marcin+Mazur.jpg Tales from the Collections - The 'Liber Farnese': Between Dynastic Heraldry and Botany at the Venerable English College in Rome - Make it stand out Panel 2 (folio 8r) https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2025/from-oxford-to-rome-via-naples-the-vicissitudes-of-a-copy-of-nicholas-trevets-commentary-on-the-psalms monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/a90ba6dd-0cf7-4014-8ef9-fc6bafa679c7/Kuj+1.png Tales from the Collections - From Oxford to Rome, via Naples: the vicissitudes of a copy of Nicholas Trevet’s commentary on the Psalms - Make it stand out AVCAU, Liber 1670, f.1r, showing, at the top, the ancient inscription denoting ownership of the manuscript by the English College in Rome, and, at the foot of the folio, an erased ownership note of the medieval library of the Certosa di San Martino near Naples. The number in red ink at the top is apparently contemporary to the Certosa’s ownership note. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/8304375c-31f1-45eb-b349-b4713854c125/Kuj+close-up+of+original+ownership.png Tales from the Collections - From Oxford to Rome, via Naples: the vicissitudes of a copy of Nicholas Trevet’s commentary on the Psalms - Make it stand out AVCAU, Liber 1670, f.70r, showing the ancient inscription denoting ownership by the medieval library of the Certosa di San Martino near Naples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/abf2b36d-fd7a-41d7-a82e-ec936484e0d4/Kuj+--+master+cover.jpeg Tales from the Collections - From Oxford to Rome, via Naples: the vicissitudes of a copy of Nicholas Trevet’s commentary on the Psalms - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2021/richardmorris monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632821406458-IJESENDRF8D6LH1E8EWW/Screenshot+2021-09-28+at+10.19.07.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out Four unknown Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I, from William Camden’s sketches in Elizabeth’s Funeral Roll, 1603 British Library, Add MS 35324, f.31.v https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632823188333-OEDLI1S3IEL2TQ0XWRMV/Chapter+2+Illustration+2.3+William+Allen.jpg Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out Dr William Allen (1532–1594), founder of the English College, Douai (1568), and, with Pope Gregory XIII, co-founder of the Venerable English College, Rome (1579) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632834753910-MIAISXWW098XRBTTUSW2/Screenshot+2021-09-28+at+10.17.12.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out Children of the Chapel Royal of Elizabeth I, from William Camden’s sketches in Elizabeth’s Funeral Roll, 1603 British Library, Add MS 35324, f.31.v https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632823629699-24V1K7IN1C16MK5UL149/Screenshot+2021-09-28+at+12.04.47.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out The first entry of Richard Morris’s name in the Venerable English College Pilgrim Book, 24 March 1583, recording a nine-day stay Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe, Liber 282, 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632824242404-OUB0V6BSCU3IL7Q8SNGF/Screenshot+2021-09-28+at+12.16.27.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out John Dowland (1563–1626), lutenist and composer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1632832609726-Q8578ZYIIYQ7AVDER3XJ/Screenshot+2021-09-28+at+14.36.19.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A Welshman […] in Rome’: an incomplete life of Richard Morris, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal - Make it stand out The second entry of Richard Morris’s name in the Venerable English College Pilgrim Book, 30 June 1585, recording an eight-day stay. Details of the life of his travelling companion, John Cowden of Hertfordshire, are not yet known. Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe, Liber 282, 14. https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2021/magliana monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1615824229950-1SBL3OSJS7PY2WIUXNGR/Screenshot+2021-03-15+at+14.55.54.png Tales from the Collections - ‘To dispel the cobwebs from their brain’: College Days at Magliana The Reverend Sir Tobie Matthew (1577–1655) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1615824319883-M9ERMZT9WFRLA6D5R45F/Magliana+villa+circa+1913*.png Tales from the Collections - ‘To dispel the cobwebs from their brain’: College Days at Magliana The Venerable English College villa house and farm at La Magliana, 1913 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1615825328234-R9R1T4YUBXTT59C3VR84/Magliana+--+students+at+prayer%2C+circ+1913.jpeg Tales from the Collections - ‘To dispel the cobwebs from their brain’: College Days at Magliana Students at prayer at the shrine at La Magliana, 1913 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1615825440297-YDUV3XIDE1ED9QQXVGZX/Magliana+standing+group+1913.jpeg Tales from the Collections - ‘To dispel the cobwebs from their brain’: College Days at Magliana After dinner at La Magliana, 1913 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1615825618072-CLPY1CK0G8DP1H0H8D9L/Magliana+railway+purchase%2C+1857.jpeg Tales from the Collections - ‘To dispel the cobwebs from their brain’: College Days at Magliana Notice of the compulsory purchase of land to build the Rome-Civitavecchia Railway, including arable land belonging to the Venerable English College property at Monte delle Piche, near La Magliana, 5 October 1857 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2021/2/internship monthly 0.5 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1612427820574-EOEYAGWD9XORGAYU5P0W/IMG_6276.JPG Tales from the Collections - Working in the Archives: reflections of a gap-year volunteer intern two years on … In this blog, Winnie Axworthy, currently a second-year student at University College London (UCL), where she is reading for a degree in Viking and Old Norse Studies, reflects on her time as a volunteer intern in the Archives of the Venerable English College https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/born-and-bred-a-roman-bonnie-prince-charlie-and-the-venerable-english-college monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1609350160947-5DRD6ORKWP94UK3EI3L5/Screen+Shot+2020-12-30+at+18.38.02.png Tales from the Collections - Born and bred a Roman: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Venerable English College One of the oldest surviving copies of Adeste Fideles, from circa 1740 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1609351940542-BD53GB585ALZ096PMLI6/Screen+Shot+2020-12-30+at+19.05.19.png Tales from the Collections - Born and bred a Roman: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Venerable English College The Palazzo Muti, Rome, residence of the Stuart court in exile https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/marking-the-850th-anniversary-of-the-martyrdom-of-st-thomas-of-canterbury monthly 0.5 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1609255333332-ZH1ZE7D9C2L07RYIV6Y6/Chapter+1+Illustration+1.1+++St+Thomas+of+Canterbury+%28detail%29.jpg Tales from the Collections - Murder in the Cathedral, 29 December 1170: marking the 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury Detail showing St Thomas of Canterbury from the Martyrs’ Picture of 1581, by Durante Alberti, in the Church of the Venerable English College, Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1609269334244-P1RZT2DWUJN00GOZX8FG/Screen+Shot+2020-12-29+at+20.10.03.png Tales from the Collections - Murder in the Cathedral, 29 December 1170: marking the 850th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of St Thomas of Canterbury The Rector of the Venerable English College reading the Gospel for the Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury in the College Church, 29 December 2020 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/claughton-garstang-and-rome-the-gradwell-family-and-catholic-charitable-endeavour-in-lancashire-1820 monthly 0.5 2020-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606746882102-3Z9MK8UOW80GQ7W67QUZ/Screenshot+2020-11-30+at+15.34.05.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 Dr Robert Gradwell (1777–1833) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606735568465-A6N6EN4CL8J8RWP6OFQ6/Garstang%2B1.jpg Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 Part of the map entitled The County Palatine of Lancaster, published in 1788, at a scale of approximately one inch to one mile, by the Liverpool-based cartographer, William Yates (1738–1802). Claughton is marked on the map, roughly mid-way between Preston and Lancaster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606736031532-6V4RFAIX2LZDIUBQMYE9/Presbyterya+and+Church+of+St+Thomas+the+Apostle+.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 The Presbytery and Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Claughton-on-Brock, Lancashire, today. Built in 1794, the Presbytery was extended by Robert Gradwell during his years in charge of the mission, from 1811 to 1817 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606737594130-45WC4G0G5EDA3DQCKAQ7/Shovel+and+Broom.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 The Garstang Catholic Charitable Society was founded in 1820 at the Shovel and Broom, Garstang, known since the 1860s as The Farmer’s Arms. In the period before the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in Britain in 1829 — and for many years afterwards — the non-existence of church halls and the need for the Catholic community to maintain a low profile resulted in Catholic public meetings being held discreetly in the upper rooms of inns and taverns in cities, towns and villages throughout the kingdom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606754344796-SVOMB89CZXB0BC189T6O/Title-page Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe (AVCAU), Scritture, 65/2/9bis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606754419283-2OES9MV8W5RKC5HY87OA/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606754504282-KT2D6YNDPV0URZGPW7EQ/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606754586355-W62L16UAELJ0HU662NA0/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1606754676778-J1WZCGQS8EGB3H89T3F9/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - Claughton, Garstang, and Rome: the Gradwell family and Catholic charitable endeavour in Lancashire, 1820 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/julian-watts-russell-and-the-english-zouaves monthly 0.5 2020-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1602969605287-GEXXAP7IOIATONTA261L/Zouaves+Watts+Russell+memorial+1.JPG Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves Monument to Julian Watts-Russell, Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Venerable English College, Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1602969920491-5WON13LUDD0R5JERTXJK/Zouaves+Watts+Russell+memorial+2.JPG Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves Close-up image of the inscription at the base of the monument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1602970337900-TWN8C58AAU395813KUCB/Zouaves+02.jpg Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves Photographs above and below of two French Pontifical Zouaves, circa 1868, in their distinctive uniform https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1602970441666-PRTFB79CMR9BQ3ZLRPIV/Zouaves+03.jpg Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1603042418542-K6CQOW8JUUJ4O29AM57Y/Battle+of+Mentana+--+London+Illustrated+News Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves The Battle of Mentana, 3 November 1867, as depicted in the Illustrated London News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1603045614185-C99R0ZIT03MNN8U5TAXL/Wilfrid+Watts-Russell Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves An unidentified photograph of circa 1868 in the Venerable English College Archives, believed to be of Wilfrid Watts-Russell (c.1846–79), wearing the Mentana Medal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1603044469447-WOVDRPH68TRKHV73TQD4/Mentana+medal+1 Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves Above and below: the two sides of the Mentana Medal awarded by Pius IX in 1868 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1603044523104-MAVE6XS3TX359I4U2WUC/Mentana+medal+2 Tales from the Collections - Julian Watts-Russell and the English Zouaves https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/roma-xx-settembre-1870 monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1600432127265-UCDP5K8MKD0LGTB3HWGB/3504px-BrecciaPortaPia.jpg Tales from the Collections - Roma: XX Settembre 1870 A view of the Porta Pia in the autumn of 1870, showing the breach in the wall to the right of the defensive tower on the right-hand side of the gate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1600432773394-ANGNVRECCCKFWZ0RCL8O/IMG_5916.JPG Tales from the Collections - Roma: XX Settembre 1870 The ‘Roman Question’ generated a considerable literature during the nineteenth century. This important collection of bound pamphlets on the subject, running from 1849 to 1892, survives in the Archives of the Venerable English College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1600438882895-GA0G3G0L4Y2CYKY70ICL/IMG_5915.JPG Tales from the Collections - Roma: XX Settembre 1870 A British government report on Roman affairs, following the events of 20 September 1870, presented to the House of Commons and to the House of Lords at Westminster in 1871 Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe (AVCAU), Liber 1107 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/the-roman-cholera-epidemic-of-1837 monthly 0.5 2020-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594718783203-LETG0YGC5YN61N101DF8/Screen+Shot+2020-07-13+at+21.13.19.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A State of Siege’: the Roman Cholera Epidemic of 1837 Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari (1765–1846), elected as Pope Gregory XVI, 1831 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594719574764-I2YAI1SHNLW34TVGQWP3/Screen+Shot+2020-07-13+at+20.43.03.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A State of Siege’: the Roman Cholera Epidemic of 1837 Title-page of the 1835 medical research findings of Domenico Meli (1784–1865), a member of Gregory XVI’s health commission, following his investigations into cholera in Paris, undertaken at the pope’s request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594719937643-LTEXDTLUBZ81AXYDIPQM/Screen+Shot+2020-07-13+at+20.56.35.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A State of Siege’: the Roman Cholera Epidemic of 1837 The Salus Populi Romani image: this was restored in the Vatican conservation laboratories in 2018 Image reproduced from Wikimedia Commons at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SalusPopuliRomani2018.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594722266743-BAAFDBDUAWCM5QYQJG7Y/Screen+Shot+2020-07-14+at+11.21.55.png Tales from the Collections - ‘A State of Siege’: the Roman Cholera Epidemic of 1837 Lady Gwendoline Talbot (1817–1840) married Marcantonio Borghese (1814–86), 8th Prince of Sulmona in 1835: she died of scarlet fever, aged 23 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/michaelherbert monthly 0.5 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594063658095-WC5H8A4KTKXZLUGCVAAG/A+New+Map+of+Virginia+Mary%3DLand+And+The+Improved+Parts+of+Penn%3Dsylvania+%26+New%3DJersey Tales from the Collections - An early American in Rome: tracing the life of Michael Herbert (1694–1720) A New Map of Virginia Mary=Land And The Improved Parts of Penn=sylvania & New=Jersey, 1685, by Christopher Browne (c.1660–c.1740) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1594066476080-CWRA32XZ987CS8UZJ213/Screen+Shot+2020-07-06+at+20.24.40.png Tales from the Collections - An early American in Rome: tracing the life of Michael Herbert (1694–1720) Anne Calvert, Lady Baltimore, née Anne Arundell (c.1615–49) The Maryland county named after her has long been known as Anne Arundel County, dropping the second ‘l’ used by the Arundell family of Wardour https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/thomasgrant monthly 0.5 2020-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1592573041384-7ET63VHX867AR99KCWEE/Screen+Shot+2020-06-19+at+13.35.03.png Tales from the Collections - Thomas Grant (1816–70) – Rector and ‘Piccolo Santo’ Portrait of Thomas Grant as Rector of the Venerable English College, Rome, 1844–51 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1592574958656-REKM2SALC2Q2RZRBCR29/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - Thomas Grant (1816–70) – Rector and ‘Piccolo Santo’ Thomas Grant as bishop of Southwark, photographed in 1869 at the start of the First Vatican Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1592576452620-D0DIPUH8OWZ5ZL1PTKLQ/Screen+Shot+2020-06-16+at+17.21.40.png Tales from the Collections - Thomas Grant (1816–70) – Rector and ‘Piccolo Santo’ Carte-de-visite photograph of Pius IX in 1870 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/the-exodus-of-may-1940 monthly 0.5 2020-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1589574143064-DIP6TOGK95C4HR7HRLAQ/Screen+Shot+2020-05-15+at+20.52.35.png Tales from the Collections - The Exodus of May 1940 St Peter’s Basiica, 5 May 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1589575281335-AEHVWWFOS7GEXEV3DDU5/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-05-15%2Bat%2B20.48.48.jpg Tales from the Collections - The Exodus of May 1940 Croft Lodge, Ambleside, the temporary abode of the ‘exiled’ Venerable English College, 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1589575405039-W3IXK8PPO3VRU95Z8C5U/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-05-15%2Bat%2B20.49.39.jpg Tales from the Collections - The Exodus of May 1940 The College’s temporary chapel at Croft Lodge, Ambleside, autumn 1940 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/christopherarchibald monthly 0.5 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1589027893057-KKPTRZZG5RH590BGELKV/Screen+Shot+2020-05-09+at+13.35.57.png Tales from the Collections - Research in Rome, a year on: reflections of an aspiring doctoral student Christopher Archibald in the Schwarzenbach Reading Room, 13 May 2019, during his internship in the College Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1589028516647-WIDYX7F5UUE8BVES6Q5D/Wright_Astraea+Returns+to+the+Earth.jpg Tales from the Collections - Research in Rome, a year on: reflections of an aspiring doctoral student John Michael Wright (1617–1694), ‘Astraea Returns to Earth (The Apotheosis of Charles II)’[1] Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, photo in public domain https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/st-charles-borromeo-and-the-venerable-english-college monthly 0.5 2020-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1587745269692-1NE73KIJH7JXIXA5GFEV/Screen+Shot+2020-04-24+at+17.20.18.png Tales from the Collections - St Charles Borromeo and the Venerable English College AVCAU, Scritture 13/6/2 — letter of San Carlo Borromeo to Alfonso Agazzari, SJ, rector of the Venerable English College, Rome, 30 June 1580. Borromeo signed the letter as cardinal priest of Santa Prassede, his titular church in Rome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1587746011452-E1TEBGDZPWJ3UOTL5552/Screen+Shot+2020-04-24+at+17.30.08.png Tales from the Collections - St Charles Borromeo and the Venerable English College Portrait of St John Fisher today displayed in the Biblioteca Ambrosiano in Milan. Might this be the portrait which San Carlo Borromeo kept in his private study in Milan? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1587747214220-MKEJXWGSW578INW6CPLT/Screen+Shot+2020-04-24+at+17.30.47.png Tales from the Collections - St Charles Borromeo and the Venerable English College Cardinal Reginald Pole’s Reformatio Angliae, published posthumously in Rome in 1562 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1587746328855-XGOAHONIOU49T63V0THN/image-asset.png Tales from the Collections - St Charles Borromeo and the Venerable English College Nicolò Ormanetto (c. 1515–1577) https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/robertwhittaker monthly 0.5 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1586453620298-J1PSUO700SW4CO039Q7S/IMG_5641.JPG Tales from the Collections - Preparing an undergraduate History dissertation topic: exploring the papers of Edward Meredith, SJ (1648–1715) Robbie Whittaker working on the Edward Meredith Papers in the Schwarzenbach Reading Room, 13 December 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1586453835039-PCMYO658R225XHL5A077/Three-quarter_left_side_head_and_chest_portrait_of_Sir_William_Godolphin.jpg Tales from the Collections - Preparing an undergraduate History dissertation topic: exploring the papers of Edward Meredith, SJ (1648–1715) Portrait of Sir William Godolphin (1635–1696) by Peter Lely (1618–1680) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1586460888556-932WN9T9USDVMVF4GQKC/Screen+Shot+2020-04-09+at+19.26.21.png Tales from the Collections - Preparing an undergraduate History dissertation topic: exploring the papers of Edward Meredith, SJ (1648–1715) Letter from Edward Meredith (Naples) to Fr Ralph Postgate, rector of the Venerable English College, Rome, 28 March 1705, AVCAU, Scritture 7/6/18 — one of the many of Meredith’s papers which Robbie Whittaker has used in preparing his dissertation https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/emmawallblog monthly 0.5 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1585941881754-L4FMNMA77DKMJ59F86UU/Plan%2Bof%2BVEC%2Bcopy.jpg Tales from the Collections - Unlocking the potential of the Archives: a PhD candidate's perspective A mid-seventeenth-century plan of the Venerable English College, Rome, prior to the rebuilding work of 1685 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1585935255719-7J78UL8O3ZNZRUWO5OGS/Emma+Wall+at+work+in+the+Schwarzenbach+Reading+Room%2C+28+February+2020 Tales from the Collections - Unlocking the potential of the Archives: a PhD candidate's perspective Emma Wall at work in the Schwarzenbach Reading Room, 28 February 2020 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/the-venerable-english-college-and-the-dowry-of-mary monthly 0.5 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1585155389824-PZ6WF1FY0E9CKCOOXNPV/The+Wilton+Diptych Tales from the Collections - The Venerable English College and the Dowry of Mary Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and Edmund ('The Wilton Diptych') English or French(?), circa 1395–99, 53 x 37 cm, reproduced by permission of the National Gallery, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1585157347359-C4MC064TVJY9HQQ8QJWO/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2020-03-25%25252Bat%25252B17.12.18.jpg Tales from the Collections - The Venerable English College and the Dowry of Mary The Virgen de los Ingleses commissioned for the English College, Seville, circa 1593 Real Academia de Medicina, Seville https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/santa-maria-in-campitelli-an-old-roman-church-with-strong-british-connections monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582707494158-4LKWEYEX0TRY1EDMKJBF/Screenshot+2020-02-25+at+17.51.14.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections Santa Maria in Campitelli in the eighteenth century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582710927569-IB3YLCF8DWNBSQHZB90G/Cardinal-Fitzgerald-copy.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, M. Afr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582712416219-F7A164Z30LA8I2KTRX0K/20110131-123240-6646-raw7d.jpg Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections The icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Santa Maria in Campitelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582712650832-CCXN8BL3QT097BLN99F4/Screenshot+2020-02-26+at+10.21.28.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections Cardinal Charles Erskine (1739–1811) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582712835143-FRBJBO8ZBSE68Z8NUZ18/Screenshot+2020-02-26+at+10.36.46.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582713307056-W3RHU9WVO2SP5C55ZLCG/Screenshot+2020-02-26+at+11.34.41.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart (1725–1807) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1582713622004-7116Q3S56NT1MUE5K7JR/Screenshot+2020-02-26+at+10.33.38.png Tales from the Collections - Santa Maria in Campitelli: an old Roman church with strong British connections https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2020/cardinal-reginald-pole-15001558-father-of-seminary-education monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1580373483670-W02VYVV8R1L1JBPBUXVB/Pole%2C+Reginald+.png Tales from the Collections - Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), father of seminary education Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558) Portrait by a follower of Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485–1547) Magdalen College, Oxford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1580210649053-FBJUWKZWBP79VJD2LTZ0/Pole+Liber+23+cropped+version.jpg Tales from the Collections - Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), father of seminary education The Liber Rationarius Hospitalis, or account book of the English Hospice, Rome, for 1548–49, bearing the arms of Cardinal Reginald Pole as custos or warden of the Hospice (AVCAU, Liber 23) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1580310400294-M0M2B1B087A16KWY110W/Pole%2C+Reformatio+Angliae.png Tales from the Collections - Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), father of seminary education A copy of the Latin version of the decrees of the 1555 Synod of London, published in Rome in 1562 at the Aldine Press of Paulus Manutius or Paolo Manuzio (1512–1574), third son of the celebrated Venetian printer Aldus Manutius and his wife Maria Torresano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1580310491571-RPKTPYC0SPWW0BRCF4AE/Pole%2C+Reginald%2C+books+belonging+to%2C+Dionysius%2C+1516.jpg Tales from the Collections - Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), father of seminary education A copy of Tade enestin en tēde tē biblo tou Hagiou Dionysiou, a text by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (floruit c. 650—c. 725), from the press of Filippo Giunta (1450?—1517) [Florence, 1516], bearing the inscription ‘R.P.C.’ or ‘Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis’ (Venerable English College Library, Rare Book Collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1580310532694-CVRUUI3WYXHU4Q9KK1H2/Pole%2C+Reginald%2C+book+belonging+to%2C+Omnia+Themistii%2C+1534.jpg Tales from the Collections - Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), father of seminary education An Aldine Press edition of Omnia Themistii opera, hoc est paraphrases, et orationes. Alexandri Aphrodisiensis libri dvo De anima, et De fato vnvs (Venetiis: In aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutii, & Andreae Asulani mense Maio M.D.XXXIIII [1534]), again bearing an ‘R.P.C’ inscription — and indicating its status as a book from the Library of the English Hospice in Rome (Venerable English College Library, Rare Book Collection) https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/a-1920s-christmas-in-rome monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1575911039416-2GY6QAMOSDI75GAMGPWU/Chi+Lo+Sa%2C+Christmas+1924.jpg Tales from the Collections - A 1920s Christmas in Rome Cover page of Chi Lo Sa, Christmas 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1575911216360-VLPJ0QNZW86I35HG5XGX/Students%27+common+room%2C+Christmas+1923.jpg Tales from the Collections - A 1920s Christmas in Rome Students' common room, Christmas 1923 (AVCAU photographic collection) https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/the-case-of-the-tarnished-napkin-ring-rediscovering-dr-william-francis-park-19061950 monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1572029746845-N8IHETQLFUKPR59OAX2A/W+F+Park+napkin+ring+1.jpg Tales from the Collections - The case of the tarnished napkin ring: rediscovering Dr William Francis Park (1906–1950) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1572023189901-Z3HC9GY1KRZFEUOEDDER/William+Park%2C+1930.jpg Tales from the Collections - The case of the tarnished napkin ring: rediscovering Dr William Francis Park (1906–1950) William Francis Park in 1930: Venerable English College Archives https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/newman-and-the-venerable-english-college monthly 0.5 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1570870430692-SC5D48HHTAIWIZ800PTQ/Newman.jpg Tales from the Collections - Newman and the Venerable English College Cardinal John Henry Newman, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1881 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1570870630680-G2SZF9S28PNLJ3MYKEXR/VEC+billiards+Newman.jpg Tales from the Collections - Newman and the Venerable English College Bill and receipt from the Rome-based supplier, Paolo Cartoni, for the decoration in damask of the Billiard Room at the Venerable English College, Rome, together with the furnishing of a velvet seat and a large rug for the grand reception to welcome the newly elevated Cardinal John Henry Newman on 14 May 1879. AVCAU, Liber 1114, receipts file for 23 May 1879 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1570870796873-S5CT0Y10ELRK7Y1M0RLD/Newman+speech+VEC.jpg Tales from the Collections - Newman and the Venerable English College Copy of the text of John Henry Newman’s thank-you speech given at the Venerable English College, 14 May 1879. AVCAU, Newman Collection https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/dear-old-monte-p monthly 0.5 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567861328133-J9IF6OC0QK23O5V1ATC3/Monte%2BPorzio%2B2.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. Monte Porzio Catone, 1909 All of the images of Monte Porzio below are taken from an album of photographs of 1909 and 1910 in the Venerable English College Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567861846869-D20PQDGZQTX7RSZ99TAM/Monte%252BPorzio%252B1.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. The terrace of the villa at Monte Porzio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567861932318-21KZDZMEQ0M9ZGMBLGBJ/English%2BCollege%252C%2BLie%25CC%2580ge.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. The English College, Liège, in the seventeenth century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567862112314-ASCAEEQWXM9A8MVK57S3/Monte%2BPorzio%2B3.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. Coffee after lunch, Monte Porzio, 1909 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567862272359-ZX5AN8IODZA3VD18G0DN/Monte%2BPorzio%2B4.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. ‘A fine set of men’: seminarians of the Venerable English College leading a festal procession, Monte Porzio, 1909 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1567862734509-QZNTADF88DCVPQXS8TGF/Monte%252BPorzio%252B5.jpg Tales from the Collections - Dear Old Monte P. The villa at Monte Porzio, 1909 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/an-elephant-in-the-archives monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1561018028839-GFD7KX38G77D12KHJS9B/Screen+Shot+2019-06-20+at+09.58.29.png Tales from the Collections - An Elephant in the Archives Don Diego performing tricks in Germany in 1629: Wenceslas Hollar The Tame Elephant WikiCommons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_The_tame_elephant.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1561018223326-JNFCPLA1A8ZEZKTFFWYQ/Screen+Shot+2019-06-20+at+09.59.09.png Tales from the Collections - An Elephant in the Archives Nicolas Poussin, Hannibal traversant les Alpes à dos d'éléphant, c. 1630 WikiCommons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannibal_traversant_les_Alpes_%C3%A0_dos_d%27%C3%A9l%C3%A9phant_-_Nicolas_Poussin.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1561018416635-5JI7WVUL2NMPV4OCE6F3/Screen+Shot+2019-06-20+at+09.59.43.png Tales from the Collections - An Elephant in the Archives Bernini’s Elephant, Santa Maria sopra Minerva (WikiCommons: Alvesgaspar [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_Bernini_September_2015-1.jpg https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/d-day-and-the-venerabile monthly 0.5 2020-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1559768046155-O0ID71NGQIKIA603GCR3/Firth%252C%2BPeter.jpg Tales from the Collections - D-Day and the Venerabile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1598291399611-XCZCVVNTE6087Y9BP4SW/Screen+Shot+2020-08-24+at+18.48.58.png Tales from the Collections - D-Day and the Venerabile The War Memorial, Scorton, Lancashire, showing the name of the Reverend Peter Firth Reproduced by kind permission of Mary Randles, of the Garstang and District Heritage Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1559768316020-3MO6EM3BTYERKST1TTHY/Nesbitt.jpg Tales from the Collections - D-Day and the Venerabile https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/cardinal-christopher-bainbridge-14641514 monthly 0.5 2020-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1559147990700-2F4EB8LIU71UYD79MDLL/Bainbridge+tomb+photograph.jpg Tales from the Collections - Christopher Bainbridge (1464–1514), cardinal archbishop of York and Henry VIII's ambassador to the pope https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/the-exiled-stuart-court-in-rome-some-evidence-from-the-venerable-english-college-pilgrim-books monthly 0.5 2020-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1556708197207-XEWS2Y26CPDPLDIXX5E1/Screen+Shot+2019-05-01+at+12.49.38.png Tales from the Collections - The exiled Stuart court in Rome: some evidence from the Venerable English College Pilgrim Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1556708513562-8XWD0M87KM2JRA4YBNTR/Screen+Shot+2019-05-01+at+12.51.10.png Tales from the Collections - The exiled Stuart court in Rome: some evidence from the Venerable English College Pilgrim Books https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/the-rectorate-of-thomas-fitzherbert-sj-161839 monthly 0.5 2020-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1553781483333-96O577HWA20616KQ9Y3W/IMG_4742+copy.jpg Tales from the Collections - The Rectorate of Thomas Fitzherbert, SJ, 1618–39 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1553780728048-N85IPF8T39WPO9ATGG7A/Screen+Shot+2019-03-28+at+12.13.48.png Tales from the Collections - The Rectorate of Thomas Fitzherbert, SJ, 1618–39 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1553781159257-7VIHSIKA2EI139CS0X88/Screen+Shot+2019-03-28+at+12.13.21.png Tales from the Collections - The Rectorate of Thomas Fitzherbert, SJ, 1618–39 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/ninety-years-ago-the-lateran-treaty-of-1929 monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1549371554312-5F2C0CZH7RG9R8PZ6FEK/Lateran++3.jpg Tales from the Collections - Ninety Years Ago: The Lateran Treaty of 1929 The crowd in St Peter’s Square on Tuesday, 12 February 1929, awaiting the blessing of Pope Pius XI Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe (AVCAU), Photographic collection, 1929 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1549371990573-3RNBZUCO6SNC8T6IODP4/Lateran+4.jpg Tales from the Collections - Ninety Years Ago: The Lateran Treaty of 1929 A view of St Peter’s Square, Tuesday, 12 February 1929, taken by one of the students of the Venerable English College AVCAU, Photographic collection, 1929 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1549378117255-L5DGUIDE5Y2KXELNTQS9/Lateran+5.jpg Tales from the Collections - Ninety Years Ago: The Lateran Treaty of 1929 L’Osservatore Romano for Tuesday, 12 February 1929, celebrating the seventh anniversary of Pope Pius XI AVCAU, Newspaper collection https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2019/contributing-to-christian-unity-the-role-of-the-venerable-english-college monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1547847590205-G1Q8UQI81WEM7ZCEX8K8/Ramsey%2C+Archbishop+Michael%2C+at+VEC%2C+22+March+1966.JPG Tales from the Collections - Contributing to Christian Unity: the role of the Venerable English College Archbishop Michael Ramsey arriving at the Venerable English College, 22 March 1966, escorted by Bishop Thomas Holland, of Salford. Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe (AVCAU), Scritture 87/14 https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2018/a-christmas-to-remember monthly 0.5 2020-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1544809752389-G4570WUID6JZLBR5XIJF/Gradwell+presenting+the+first+students+to+the+Pope.jpg Tales from the Collections - A Christmas to Remember Dr Robert Gradwell and the first students to return to the Venerable English College in 1818 visiting Pius VII, 24 December 1818 Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe (AVCAU), collection of drawings This depiction of the first visit of students of the Venerable English College to Pius VII, following the reopening of the College in 1818, was prepared in 1883 by the Roman artist, Silverio Capparoni (1831–1907), as a template for the lunette painting on the back wall of the College church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1544809491404-PCTNDHYI1G1XSC114PGT/Gradwell+portrait.jpg Tales from the Collections - A Christmas to Remember Portrait of Dr Robert Gradwell (1777–1833), Rector of the Venerable English College, 1818 –1828, by an unknown artist. The portrait, which today hangs in the College Library, is undated but was almost certainly executed in 1828 on Robert Gradwell’s appointment as coadjutor bishop of the London District. https://www.vecheritage.org/blog/2018/11/13/gothic-revival-at-the-venerable-english-college-1868 monthly 0.5 2020-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1542349433336-XK99RC3N4U6YQNIZ4UO2/Image+of+Hospice+and+Church.jpg Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 Artist’s impression of the medieval buildings of the English Hospice, Rome, and the Church of the Most Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury, on the site of the present-day Venerable English College, as they would have looked in the mid-sixteenth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1542349521768-CY4GJGTROD2VD9I33B6T/Pugin+1.jpg Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 The image above, and the three images below. preserved in the Venerable English College Archives, depict the unexecuted designs of Edward Welby Pugin for the new Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, 1868. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1542349512135-OSAOTLGI01GRWGLWQCDU/image-asset.jpeg Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 Unexecuted designs by Edward Welby Pugin for the new Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, 1868. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1542349502997-TN8XHUBZ3AGZ3B6APOYP/image-asset.jpeg Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 Unexecuted designs by Edward Welby Pugin for the new Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, 1868. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1542349483914-830IWP0XDZQSZ6IZLPXX/Pugin+4.jpg Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 Unexecuted designs by Edward Welby Pugin for the new Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Rome, 1868. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543921875201-PRILGJ8XW9Q7GJCD8KDH/26011500.JPG Tales from the Collections - Gothic Revival at the Venerable English College, 1868 The design by Virginio Vespignani which was accepted instead of Pugin’s. 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The Schwarzenbach Reading Room A world-class study space for scholars visiting the VEC Heritage Collections was completed in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543185269127-U6RSL36ZZIYCJ3DN7BMF/parchment-restoration.jpg Our plans for the VEC Heritage Collections - Parchment Restoration 450 parchment scrolls dating from 1280 to 1971 require delicate conservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543184472522-BBW2LAGA838Z3Z4JACXE/IMG_4266.JPG Our plans for the VEC Heritage Collections Parchment manuscript undergoing restoration work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543183843857-1UUNWCVSF8AA3M0DF02K/cataloguing.jpg Our plans for the VEC Heritage Collections Screen-shot of a digital library catalogue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543183855452-YHUVDFZAB4TGSQ1AZY1L/digitization.jpg Our plans for the VEC Heritage Collections Hands removing iPad from bookcase https://www.vecheritage.org/visit-the-reading-room daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/84ee24f6-cd5c-435a-9a0c-a12d02833e05/1-41_48051352022_o.jpg Visit the reading room - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vecheritage.org/about/about-the-archives daily 0.75 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539143097678-B0J5ZVQKDLL5XLW4PFOF/music-manuscript.jpg About the VEC Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539143564749-D8WXNNFRUGCD7V7PKEUM/vec-archives.jpg About the VEC Archives The Archives space of the Venerable English College, Rome. https://www.vecheritage.org/about/history-old daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1583976157896-EOB9TN1FYEL38T0VUW1N/help-the-vec.jpg History of the VEC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1583976347699-T9E07WHU57DNPFLR3F2S/English%2BHospice%2C%2BRome.jpg History of the VEC An artist’s impression of the English Hospice, via di Monserrato https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1583976384862-6PPVMKG5JIGLU436ASC8/martyrs-picture-mass.jpg History of the VEC The Martyrs’ Picture by Durante Alberti (1583) hangs over the sanctuary in the Venerable English College church. https://www.vecheritage.org/about/preserving-religious-archives-old daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1543186577843-FFGWCKO9N2SJOBSFYR4S/IMG_4266.JPG Guidelines for the preservation of religious archives https://www.vecheritage.org/iif-test daily 0.75 2023-03-31 https://www.vecheritage.org/unlocking-a-hidden-heritage-old daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1538969040501-5R57L62RQPZY2XKRAS9G/manuscript-banner.jpg Archives Old https://www.vecheritage.org/about/about-the-heritage-collections daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539143097678-B0J5ZVQKDLL5XLW4PFOF/music-manuscript.jpg About the VEC Heritage Collections https://www.vecheritage.org/about/history daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1583976347699-T9E07WHU57DNPFLR3F2S/English%2BHospice%2C%2BRome.jpg History of the VEC An artist’s impression of the English Hospice, via di Monserrato https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1583976384862-6PPVMKG5JIGLU436ASC8/martyrs-picture-mass.jpg History of the VEC The Martyrs’ Picture by Durante Alberti (1583) hangs over the sanctuary in the Venerable English College church. https://www.vecheritage.org/about/preserving-religious-archives daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://www.vecheritage.org/about-1-1 daily 1.0 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/7162fe6f-2857-40ad-a99d-0432046314d9/archives-side.jpg.webp Home new https://www.vecheritage.org/archives daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/7162fe6f-2857-40ad-a99d-0432046314d9/archives-side.jpg.webp Archives https://www.vecheritage.org/about-the-vec-heritage-collections-copy daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539143097678-B0J5ZVQKDLL5XLW4PFOF/music-manuscript.jpg About the VEC Heritage Collections (Old) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bba9a547a1fbd2c0613ea13/1539143564749-D8WXNNFRUGCD7V7PKEUM/vec-archives.jpg About the VEC Heritage Collections (Old) The Archives space of the Venerable English College, Rome. https://www.vecheritage.org/collections-policy daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://www.vecheritage.org/shop daily 0.75 2018-10-08