Job Opportunity at The National Archives
Records Specialist (Part Time)
An opportunity has arisen to work part time over two years on an exciting AHRC-funded project run by The National Archives (TNA) at Kew and the Department of History at the University of Leicester (UoL). The In Their Own Write (ITOW) project focuses on letters from paupers and other poor people, and associated manuscript material such as petitions, sworn statements and advocate letters (those written on behalf of paupers) to investigate the lives of the poor between 1834 and 1900.
The project will systematically sample the correspondence in order to identify significant numbers of pauper letters within the overall collection of correspondence; transcribe these letters and identify the 'voices' of the poor who wrote to poor law officials; and analyse the letters with a view to understanding how the poor understood, experienced and exercised agency under the New Poor Law, using historiographical methodologies, but also employing tools from corpus linguistics.
The project team now requires someone to assist with the liaison across TNA and UoL: to develop and lead aspects of the online listing and access to the spreadsheets and transcribed parts of our project data; to help co-manage the volunteer members of the ITOW Pauper Letters Research Group; respond to requests for ad-hoc research within the project collections; to undertake some of the primary research within TNA collections.
The post holder will work for 1 and a half days a week for 2 years.
Join us here in beautiful Kew, just 10 minutes' walk from the Overground and Underground stations, and you can expect an excellent range of benefits. They include a pension, flexible working and childcare vouchers, as well as discounts with local businesses (e.g. beauty salons and bars). We also offer wellbeing resources (e.g. on-site therapists) and have an on-site gym, restaurant, shop and staff bar.
To apply please follow the link: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1606172
Closing date: 4th November at Midnight
Salary: £26,708 Pro rata
Olivia Pinto
Recruitment Adviser
020 8392 5203
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU
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