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Wanted: Royal librarian to look after the Queen’s 125,000 titles -- The Royal Collection is advertising for a librarian to run the Royal Library at Windsor Castle for £53,000 per year

It is a bookworm’s dream job: the Royal Collection is advertising for a librarian to look after the Queen’s 125,000 titles.

It is seeking “an exceptional scholar and bibliophile” to run the Royal Library at Windsor Castle for £53,000 per year. The library contains one of the world’s finest collections of Old Master Drawings, including the largest group of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

It also has a unique collection comprising over 4,500 military maps and documents, spanning the four centuries from Agincourt to Waterloo.

The current Royal Librarian is Lady Roberts, who was appointed in 2002. Her husband, Sir Hugh Roberts, was the director of the Royal Collection and surveyor of the Queen’s works of art until 2010.

The requirements are “a strong scholarly background with in depth knowledge of history (particularly British), bibliography and a record of publishing, lecturing and academic research”.