Dear All
We have a vacancy for the post of conservator as below:
Conservator £23850 - £27214 (equivalent pa)
Wootton Hall Park Northampton
Hours: 37 hours per week
Fixed term until 30th June 2014
Post number: 60935
Northamptonshire County Council has recently purchased an important family collection. The fixed term post of conservator (Oct 2013 to June 2014) has been created to undertake practical conservation work and preservation packaging on this collection. The documents cover 800 years of the history and responsibilities of the Earls of Westmorland. Conservator working towards accreditation or accredited required.
For more details and to apply please go to Northamptonshire County Council website http://powered.jobsgopublic.com/northants/ The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 12th September
Please note that Northamptonshire County Council no longer offers interview expenses.
For an informal discussion please contact Juliette Baxter 01604 362474
The collection represents some 800 years of the Westmorland family’s – and the nation’s – history. The archive is exceptionally rich in local material, including 150-200 medieval deeds that are in particularly fine condition. The manorial records represent about 15% of the items in the archive and include records for Mildmay/Fane manors in Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire and Kent.
The Earls of Westmorland were landowners, employers, justices and politicians whose actions affected the lives of hundreds of other individuals. The archive can help local people to find out about the history of their community, village and about individual buildings and families. The Archive is essential for understanding a large area of north and east Northamptonshire and also parts of what is now Cambridgeshire.
The archive gives us an insight into the local and the national. The Westmorland family papers give us, for example, details of the daily agricultural routine in a Northamptonshire village. Members of the family were involved in the creation of the Tudor administration, they were players in the Civil War and the parliamentary monarchy which resulted from that and they were also ambassadors and diplomats for the country.
The archive was faced with dispersal at Sotheby’s in 1950 but was saved at the eleventh hour by Joan Wake, Northamptonshire’s first County Archivist who was responsible for establishing the record office. Thanks to her intervention, the archive was deposited at the Northamptonshire Record Office and has been in its care for 62 years.
In 2012, due to a number of important grants and local fundraising, Northamptonshire County Council was able to purchase the collection.
The challenge is to ensure that the collection is preserved and fully accessible to the public.
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