About the Project
Applications are invited for a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship, to be undertaken at Dr Williams's Library and LAHP to work on French material in Dr Williams's Library collection. This fully-funded studentship will commence in October 2018. Supervisors will be drawn as appropriate from departments of the LAHP consortium (King’s College London, the School of Advanced Study and University College London); secondary supervision may be appropriate from History of the Book specialists.
Project overview:
The library of the Protestant dissenter Dr Daniel Williams (c. 1643-1716) features a substantial number of books and other material deriving from France, Spain and Italy, mostly relating to the early modern period. A catalogue, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012308814, published in 1727 indicates approximately 1,900 French books (books written in French and/or books with a French imprint often in Latin), with a wide variety of subjects including the Americas, European travel, philosophy, aesthetics and theology. There is some existing research, including by Dr Barry Taylor of the British Library, on the Spanish and Italian elements of the collection, but none on the French material.
The aim of the collaborative PhD is to produce a digital catalogue of the French material in Dr Williams’s library through comparison of the 1727 printed catalogue with the books themselves and other catalogued versions, with details where possible of provenance, annotations, ownership, binding etc.
Dr Williams’s library will provide training in bibliographic, cataloguing methods and descriptions of historic bookbinding. The post holder will need reading fluency in French and ideally Spanish or Italian, and previous qualifications in Modern Languages. Further language training may be provided via LAHP as required.
The collaborative PhD is an outstanding opportunity for a postgraduate research project which will be of lasting benefit in terms of the production of a research resource and scholarship on the material itself, which will enhance the profile of modern language knowledge, transmission and learning in the early modern period and beyond.
Eligibility
Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline, and a Masters-level qualification or equivalent which meets AHRC requirements for research training. Applicants with relevant work/professional experience who are considering doing a PhD are also encouraged to apply.
Closing Date: 26 January 2018
For more information and to apply for the studentship, please see the LAHP website: https://www.lahp.ac.uk/collaborative-doctoral-award-studentships/
Funding Notes
The AHRC-funded London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) brings together three leading British research universities: King’s College London (King’s), the School of Advanced Study (SAS) and University College London (UCL). Students are enrolled at one of the three partners.
The studentship includes a stipend at current Research Council UK rates of £16,553 per annum (plus fees at home/EU rates) for three and half years. The awarded candidate will also be entitled to a £550 per annum stipend top-up. As a LAHP student, the successful candidate will have full access to the LAHP Doctoral Training Partnership development activities and networking opportunities, joining a cohort of about 80 students per year. Studentships can be either full or part-time.
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