Vacancy - Project Historian: Young People in Time

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Project Historian: Young People in Time

An opportunity has arisen for a project historian to join the Young People in Time project at Toynbee Hall.

Young People in Time is an oral history project that will engage a group of 20 young people together with older generations by focussing on a theme: 'being young today and in the past'. This theme is broad and it is expected will encompass material related to youth clubs, teenage behaviour and issues related to Britishness, and the specific experience of young people in the East End in the last sixty years. The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and will be led by the Young People and Families team at Toynbee Hall, with additional support from the British Museum and London Metropolitan University.

The project historian will provide guidance on the historical background of the project, as well as manage the collection and archiving of the oral history interviews. The contract is for 52 days over 12 months (1st April 2007 - 31 March 2008).

For more information or to receive an application pack, please see our website, (http://www.toynbeehall.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001000100010007&pagetitle=Work+With+Us) or email Shelena Khanom at shelenakh@toynbeehall.org.uk
For an informal chat about this post, please contact Richard Springer, Head of Young People and Families via email at richardsp@toynbeehall.org.uk or call 020 7247 6943.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Wednesday 21 March 2007; interviews will be held in the week commencing Monday 26 March 2007.

Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London
E1 6LS

w: www.toynbeehall.org.uk
t: 020 7247 6943

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Theatre Museum Vacancy - Documentation Assistant

Documentation Assistant
Fixed-term contract to March 2009
Salary: £23k - £27k
Closing Date: 02/04/2007

V&A Theatre Collections (Theatre Museum) has recently been awarded funding by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) to digitise 10,000 items relating to East London theatres. The project leader for this collaborative project will be the University of East London (UEL); other partners include Hackney Empire, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Wilton’s Music Hall. This is a 2-year project which will commence in April 2007.

The Documentation Assistant will be responsible for creating brief catalogue records and other textual material relating to the 10,000 Theatre Collections images to be included in the project. Applicants should be educated to degree level, with a postgraduate qualification in library or archives studies. You will need substantial experience of cataloguing within a library or archive environment, including the use of appropriate standards for description and subject indexing. A confident user of IT is essential for this post, with experience of using databases, spreadsheets and digital resources.

This post will be based at the Theatre Collections’ site in Olympia, London W14.

For full details and online application form, please go to the Job Opportunities section of the V&A website: www.vam.ac.uk/jobs

All good wishes
Guy