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Research Associate: 'The Making of Natural History, 1797 - Present'

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Manchester Metropolitan University
📍 Manchester, United Kingdom
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Location Manchester
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Posted June 23, 2026
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As the historian on the project, the postholder will be responsible for

  • carrying out research into the ‘history' of natural history in Britain in the nineteenth century, in order to better understand how the subject may be revived and reinvented as a new field of research

  • exploring a wide range of archival sources in Manchester, Cumbria and elsewhere, to shed light on the long-overlooked contribution of agricultural labourers and a new, industrial working-class to environmental science in Britain

  • practising and developing innovative, interdisciplinary methods of research: for example, by working with an ecologist to explore what historical sources may tell us about the rapidly changing environment of England's industrial heartlands, in a period that long precedes the establishment of the Biological Records Centre in 1964

  • writing up your own research relating to the rich archival materials explored on the project (in ...

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