Vacancies & Volunteering

Current Vacancies

The Society (based at Burlington House in London) is a registered charity and the oldest learned society in Britain concerned with the material remains of the past. The Society consists of 3,000 Fellows who are scholars and practitioners working across the cultural heritage sector. The Society also owns and manages a historic property in Oxfordshire, Kelmscott Manor, which was the former Cotswolds retreat of William Morris and the final home of his daughter, May Morris.

Vacancies

There are no current vacancies.

Volunteering

  • Magna Carta 1225 Volunteers

    Your chance to make history at the Society of Antiquaries in London!

    The Society of Antiquaries is Britain’s oldest learned society concerned with the research and preservation of the past.

    This summer we’re hosting Magna Carta 1225 at our apartments in Burlington House, a temporary exhibition funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

    Magna Carta 1225 is open to the public from 23 July to 19 September 2025 on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. It showcases treasures from our museum and library collections and reveals fascinating stories of life and liberty in Britain during the Middle Ages.

    Get involved

    We’re now recruiting front of house volunteers to provide a warm welcome for exhibition visitors. Full training provided.

    If you are:

    · Friendly and reliable
    · Interested in history
    · Available this summer

    Why not join us to make history at Magna Carta 1225.

    Email [email protected] to find out more.

    Apply by Friday 20 June

    Attend training Tuesday 24 June

  • Online Volunteers

    We are looking for a team of online volunteers to help us increase the accessibility and discoverability of some of the Society’s digitised material.

    Currently we have two very exciting projects – the Society’s minute books, which are already available online, and our collection of early 20th century glass slides, which we have only just begun to digitise.

    Indexing the minute books will involve using the existing indexes as well as the digital images of the minutes to create searchable content including names of Fellows who were elected, details of papers read and items exhibited. It would be helpful if you could read 18th/19th century handwriting – have a look at some of the items on the catalogue at https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02 to get a feel for them. You will also need to be comfortable with navigating information in large Word documents.

    The glass slides are mostly labelled so we don’t expect you to be able to recognise every cathedral doorway, only to record the existing descriptions – unless of course you have additional knowledge! The current batch of c 3,500 slides seems to cover English church architecture almost exclusively. You can see the currently digitised slides at this link.

    The projects are run entirely on Google documents, with detailed training guidelines provided. The Archivist is available for queries at any time. Please feel free to sign up to try it out and see if you enjoy it – there is no commitment and every little helps!

    Please email [email protected] with your details and which of the two projects (or both!) you are interested in. We very much appreciate your help!

Still Searching for a Heritage Position?

We may not have any positions available at the moment, or maybe just not ones you’re interested in. However, you can check out the latest version of our fortnightly e-newsletter, SALON, for notices of heritage vacancies.

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