Are you passionate about local history? Do you have experience of working with original primary sources to investigate local history topics? Would you like to work on a project exploring the history of parishes in the Charnwood Forest area of Leicestershire?
Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust wishes to recruit an Editor/Volunteer Coordinator for a community-based history project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We are looking for a person with a postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline to produce a series of 20 Historical Digests for Leicestershire parishes within the Charnwood Forest Geopark area. This is a fixed term part-time contract for a self-employed contractor that will run until 22 December 2026.
The Editor/Volunteer Coordinator’s role will be to produce the Historical Digests in the agreed format for the specified parishes. This will involve historical research in published and unpublished primary sources, supporting existing and new volunteers carrying out such research and writing up the Digests in the format agreed with Charnwood Forest Geopark. The new Editor/Volunteer Coordinator will also recruit, train and provide ongoing support to a new volunteer group to carry out original research in primary sources over a three-month period on the history of two or three parishes in the project area (not restricted to the Digest topics).
