We’re delighted to announce that Dr Kate Davidson and Dr Emily Baughan have been awarded Collaborative Doctoral Award project scholarships funded by WRoCAH - full details are available on the WRoCAH website.
Feminising the Archive and the Women of Derbyshire’s Country Houses, c. 1700-1850
This project aims to contribute to the fields of women’s history, public history, and archival science. It centres on a largely unknown collection of women’s letters at Derbyshire Record Office, uncovering for the first time the domestic lives and experiences of women at Derbyshire’s country houses. Alongside completing a PhD thesis, which will be based on this archival material, the successful candidate will carry out important cataloguing and indexing work at the Record Office, taking new steps to ‘feminise’ the archive and finding aids that have traditionally prioritised male lives and experiences. The project will also involve outreach and engagement activities with the project partners.
Lead Academic and Partner Organisation:
Dr Kate Davison, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Sarah Chubb, Archives and Local Studies Manager, Derbyshire Record Office
Humanitarian NGOs and Trade Unions: a history of conflict and collaboration
This project examines the changing relationship between humanitarian NGOs and trade unions across the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the archives of Save the Children. In recovering the contours of this past relationship, it revitalises historiographies on political participation in contemporary Britain, and provides strategic insight for project partner Save the Children in the present day.
Lead Academic and Partner Organisation:
Dr Emily Baughan, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Dr Juliano Fiori, Save the Children UK