This job has just popped up on the Leeds City Council website, someone might be interested? Here's the blurb:
We are looking for an archive assistant to help with listing and re-packaging the records of the Earls of Harewood. This is an exceptional family and estate collection of international significance, with contents ranging from the slave trade to the British Raj, letters from Florence Nightingale, papers concerning Chartist disturbances and Poor Law riots, as well as drawings and documents illustrating the building of Harewood House, and the management of the Harewood family estates.
You will have excellent IT and keyboard skills, and be able to work methodically and accurately. You should have a good general education, (4 GCSE passes Grade C above or equivalent including English Language and Mathematics) and an interest in history.
This post is funded through an award from the National Cataloguing Grants Scheme.
For an informal discussion, contact the Project Archivist Lisa Greenhalgh on 0113 289 8285.
Download an application form and job description from http://www.wyjs.org.uk or call 0113 253 0241.
The closing date for applications is Friday 15th May 2009.
Interviews will be held on Thursday 28th May 2009.
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