Content Manager: Discovering Historical Sources

Location: St Pancras
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months (Maternity Cover)
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: B
Salary: £35,993 per annum

About the role
The British Library’s Learning team is seeking a Content Manager for its forthcoming online resource, Discovering Historical Sources. The Library‘s Digital Learning programme supports learners of all ages by facilitating in-depth engagement with primary source material, articles, films, livestreamed events and teaching resources.

Highly organised and with excellent editorial and communication skills, you will have prior experience of managing the development of accessible, content-rich online learning resources for schools. With a degree in history or a related humanities subject, you will work in a small project team to contribute to a new online learning resource, Discovering Historical Sources. This project uses the Library’s unique collections to support and enrich the teaching of history in secondary schools and beyond. The current phase of work focusses on migration and empire histories.

You will manage the work of a Content Developer and collaborate with curatorial teams, learning colleagues and external contributors to produce interpretation that is authoritative, engaging and accessible. Equipped with up-to-date knowledge of digital learning, the curriculum and of history teaching in schools, you will ensure that the needs of target learning audiences remain core to the project and will support work to promote the resource to a newly-built network of engaged history teachers.

Following a major cyber-attack in 2023, the British Library’s web estate was rendered temporarily inaccessible. Currently only a small selection of our digital resources is available, via the Padlet platform:

Migration to Britain, 1750-1900: teaching resources

How did Britain’s involvement with India make an impact on the lives of both Indian and British people from c. 1750 to c. 1930?

The Library is working towards the restoration and redesign of our Digital Learning programmes, and Discovering Historical Sources will play a central role. The post holder will contribute to the planning and shaping of this new offer.


Please refer to the job profile for further information.


Closing at 23:59 on Monday 11 May 2026

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

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