ABOUT US

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership (LBS) is a world-renowned research centre tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the development of metropolitan Britain.
Research and analysis of slave-owners an important means of understanding the extent and the limits of slavery’s role in shaping British history and leaving lasting legacies that reach into the present. At the core of LBS’s work is a public database of c. 60,000 slave-owners in the British Empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The stories of enslaved men, women and children, however, are no less important. We expect in the next few years to extend our database to include biographical information on the hundreds of thousands of enslaved people who lived in the British Caribbean under British rule.
A commitment to the barrier-free sharing of historical information and to public engagement is central to LBS.
For more about the Centre, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/context/.

ABOUT THE ROLE

At the core of LBS’s work is a public database of more than 60,000 slave-owners in the British Empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The database and website officer will be responsible for maintaining and updating the existing database and website, including responding to new information or amendments and corrections sent in by users, sustain the community of users built by LBS, and work with the project team to develop its research base.
Interview: 01/04/2025

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loa