Local Studies and Archives Internship, Trafford Council

As Local Studies & Archive Intern, you'll support the Local Studies team by delivering a high-quality service to customers. You'll conduct research to help answer enquiries and assist customers with their own local history and genealogy research. Locating, retrieving and handling records and artefacts, you will help create displays within the centre in addition to preparing items for researchers. Working with collections such as Trafford's Arts & Heritage collection and Historic Building Plans collection (c.1850-1989), you will help digitize and catalogue key items. Trafford Local Studies & Archives preserves, manages, and provides access to archive records which relate to the former towns and rural areas which, since 1974, make up the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. Trafford's collections include archival records created by organisations or institutions, business records, and personal papers. We also hold an art and heritage collection that is comprised of artefacts and works of art with links to the local area. The Trafford Local Studies centre (TLSC) is located on the ground floor of Waterside House, in Sale (M33 7ZF). Our facilities include a Reading Room for the purposes of archives research and study, along with a bank of public computers and both microfilm and microfiche readers. Our library stock specialises in local and regional history research, and is comprised of reference collections, lending stock, periodicals, and journals. We also hold an ever-increasing range of genealogical material to aid family history research, available both in print and online.

Our core office hours are 8.45am til 5.00pm, with staff operating on a 2 week rota system. This post is predominately office based with occasional offsite working for events