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We have a new opportunity for a talented and detail orientated Archive intern to join our Nottingham based Archive team. If you have an interest in digitising and conserving the unique Paul Smith archive, then this could be a great opportunity to progress your career. This role will involve working with garments, press cuttings, printed and photographic materials, objects and artworks, to add new content to our image database, and carry out research to contribute to the development of content for a new archive website and internal blog posts.
Working 25 hours per week over a minimum of 4 days, the paid internship will last for 6 months and will commence in June or July 2022.
(Please note this is an office based internship in Nottingham and unfortunately cannot be completed remotely)
Responsibilities
- To assist with labelling, re-housing and cataloguing garments dating from the 1970s onwards and selecting and preparing these for documentation by a professional photographer.
- To carry out research in order to help date garments that are currently uncatalogued.
- To organise and catalogue invite cards and look books and create archive and handling collections of each.
- To locate collection descriptions in look books and other printed materials and add these to the archive database and locate missing catwalk imagery to be digitised.
- To assist with selecting and re-housing key press cuttings for each year in preparation for a digitisation project.
- To upload images of garments, press cuttings, invite cards, looks books and other items to our image database and to tag with relevant terms.
- To assist with selecting historic swatch books to be re-housed and digitised.
- To carry out research and locate archive materials for the purposes of internal blog posts, Comms activity and in preparation for a new archive website
- To sort through boxes of mixed materials and help with their re-organisation, cataloguing and conservation
- To transcribe audio recordings of interviews with Paul Smith and other members of staff.
Essential Experience and Skills Required
- Good level of computer literacy in Microsoft Office suite and Photoshop.
- Previous experience working in a busy administration based environment.
- Used to working with great attention to detail.
- Previous experience of working with image databases would be an advantage.
- A qualification in archival management, museum studies or fashion history would be beneficial.
- Although not essential, previous experience of carrying out research and writing blog posts or other written outputs.
About You
- Good communication skills; both written and verbal.
- Willingness to undertake repetitive tasks with a positive attitude, and to take great care when working with archival items.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Approachable and happy to help across the team as and when required
- Able to build effective working relationships.
- An interest in the fashion design process, fashion archives and archive, digitising, cataloguing and conservation.
- Able to work in a warehouse environment in Nottingham for a minimum of four days per week.
Please note, this role is not eligible for sponsorship in the Skilled Worker visa category.
