We are pleased to announce that we are looking for Research Fellows to join both our House of Lords 1640-60 and House of Commons 1832-68 projects. Full information on both roles below:
Applications
Applicants must submit a completed application form, recent CV and a letter of no more than two A4 pages outlining your interest in the post to the office manager, atucker@histparl.ac.uk by 14 June 2024.
Download the History of Parliament job application form here.
Research Fellow, House of Lords 1640-1660
The History of Parliament has a vacancy for a research fellow on its 1640-1660 House of Lords project. The successful candidate will have a PhD in British political history in the seventeenth century. They will join a small team of professional historians researching and writing the biographies of peers who sat in the Lords in the 1640-60 period. They will also contribute to the project’s academic and public engagement activities and the development of new digital resources. It is expected that the successful applicant will start in Autumn 2024.
The work of the recently established House of Lords 1640-1660 section builds upon the research of the Trust’s nine-volume House of Commons, 1640-1660 which was published in May 2023. In writing the biographies of the 255 peers and bishops eligible to sit during the period, the section will explore the shifting nature and perceptions of aristocratic power during the mid-seventeenth century and the impact upon the Lords and the peerage of civil war, party strife and new ideological commitments to king and ‘commonwealth’. Addressing these and related themes will take the new section to the heart of popular as well as parliamentary politics in the English Revolution. A survey volume, interpreting the discoveries of the research and exploring the institutional operation of the Lords is also being prepared. The section’s work will provide a key resource for political and local historians of the seventeenth century and all those interested in the causes, course and outcomes of the British Civil Wars.
Alongside research and writing, staff are expected to give papers and to attend and help organise academic conferences and seminars, collaborate on related research programmes and exhibitions, and respond to public and media inquiries. Further information and shorter articles drawing on the section’s research can be found on our blogpost Revolutionary Stuart Parliaments.
Full vacancy information and person specification can be found here.
Research Fellow, House of Commons 1832-1868
The History of Parliament has a vacancy for a research fellow on its 1832-68 House of Commons project. The successful candidate will have a PhD (or be close to completing one) in British political history in the long nineteenth century. They will join a small team of professional historians completing MP biographies and accounts of constituency politics as part of research on the period 1832-68. They will also contribute to the project’s academic and public engagement activities and the development of new digital resources. The appointment will initially be for three years but may be extended. It is expected that the successful applicant will start in Autumn 2024.
Continuing the scholarship of previous publications, including the 1820-32 House of Commons volumes, this project is producing biographies of all the 2,591 MPs who sat between the first and second Reform Acts and detailed local studies of all the related 401 constituencies in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It will provide a key resource for political and local historians and all those interested in the United Kingdom’s early democratic development. A survey volume, interpreting the discoveries of the research and exploring the institutional operation of the Commons, is also being prepared. Taking advantage of the many digital resources now available, articles are being produced far more rapidly than previous publications and presented in a new web layout, in which the text will be supported by links to original sources. Parliament dealt with an unprecedented range of social, economic and local issues during this period, and it is hoped that this format will offer gateways into the most relevant digital collections and provide a hub for researchers working within a variety of different fields. A large selection of draft articles can be viewed on the 1832-68 project’s ‘preview’ website.
Alongside research and writing, staff give regular public talks, attend and help organise academic conferences and seminars, collaborate on related research programmes and exhibitions, and respond to public and media inquiries. Social media platforms are used to promote the project and its activities. Further information and shorter articles drawing on the research can be found on The Victorian Commons blog, which also has a twitter feed.
Full job description and person specification can be found here.
Applicants must submit a completed application form, recent CV and a letter of no more than two A4 pages outlining your interest in the post to the office manager, atucker@histparl.ac.uk by 14 June 2024.
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