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Helen Forshaw shcj, Archivist of the European province, writes a regular column for each issue of ‘Province Moments’, published by the European province. You can read Helen’s articles here by opening the Acrobat pdf file for each issue.
| The Early Days of Harcourt Street |
| (October 2005: pdf file 289 KB) | Click here to download |
| Here continues the saga of the early days of Harcourt Street. These extracts from the Annals remind us that, in addition to the usual excitements and alarms of opening a new house, the pioneers had to cope also with war-time uncertainties and rationing. |
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| SHCJ on the Move |
| (January 2005: pdf file 230 KB) | Click here to download |
| As we were looking forward here in Oxford to the celebration of the centenary of SHCJ Sisters moving from St Clement’s to Cherwell Edge, I wondered what was happening 60 years ago in our province – were there SHCJ on the move to form a new community in a new place? |
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| Pupil Teachers |
| (November 2004: pdf file 366 KB) | Click here to download |
| The great work of training teachers for Catholic elementary schools: pupil teachers at Nottingham Place and then Cavendish Square... |
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| “I was one of the Pupil Teachers…” |
| (September 2004: pdf file 400 KB) | Click here to download |
| An unexpected ‘find’ – a letter from a Pupil Teacher… |
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| 1904: A Hopeful Beginning |
| (July 2004: pdf file 207KB) | Click here to download |
| The hopeful beginning took place in Oxford, England when the community moved from cramped quarters in the St Clement’s area to Cherwell Edge, a spacious house. The General Council wanted to expand the boarding school and to have a place where the first SHCJ to study at Oxford University could live. |
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| 1904: A sad ending |
| (June 2004: pdf file 465KB) | Click here to download |
| The sad ending was the closure of the Holy Child school in Boulevard de la Saussaye, Neuilly, France, by Government decree. |
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| 2004 – Centenary of 7th General Chapter held in August at Mayfield, England |
| (May 2004: pdf file 118KB) | Click here to download |
| Now in 2004, the year of our General Chapter, let’s recall what happened at the 7th General Chapter, a hundred years ago. |
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| New Home for European Province Archives |
| (pdf file 213KB) | Click here to download |
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