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When the boxes from the archive were opened and the material was explored for cataloguing Elena Carter, with a worried look, told the Archive Project Group that one box contained mould and the item would therefore need to be treated/cleaned by Wellcome Trust’s Conservation team. Luckily the mould wa...
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Presented by Dr Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Dr Sadie King and Dr Mannie SherThe talk explores the proposition that an ‘anthropological thread’ runs through the history of our work as an organisation. Our starting point has been to delve into the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’s archive at the Wel...
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Lunchtime Talk: Wednesday 19 Oct, 2016Presented by Dr Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Dr Sadie King and Dr Mannie SherWe invite you to a lunchtime talk that will explore the proposition that an ‘anthropological thread’ runs through the history of our work as an organisation. Our starting point has been to de...
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A paper by Dr Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Dr Sadie King and Dr Mannie Sher.We will be giving a seminar paper at the UCL Department of Anthropology Research Seminar ‘Anthropology in the Professional World’, on Wednesday 30 November at 6pm.Our talk will explore the proposition that an ‘anthropological thre...
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As an artist I often have the opportunity to put together concepts that at first appear disconnected. Salt and archival practices are a reoccurring feature of Spectral Ecologies, a practice-based research project I am working on that focuses on the Mallee, a geographically and historically complex r...
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If dreams are in part the expression of our unconscious, can we work with the archive as the unconscious of organisational life?What then happens when we begin to excavate, dislodge, relocate, reassemble the uncovered records of over 70 years of pioneering social science practice?How will this affec...
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Alice White’s lunchtime talk focuses on what the Tavistock archive restores to our picture of resettlement by providing insight into the people, processes, challenges and opportunities behind the Civil Resettlement Units of the 1940s.Thousands of people, many of whom had been living in camps for yea...
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Cory Pearce. E. and Scott J., (2020). ‘The Vocational Potential of Anthropology: Teaching Organisational Research Through Practitioner Archives‘ in Teaching Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 10-24.AbstractIn this article, we posit the potential utility of a practitioner archive as data for teaching...
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Juliet Scott’s Keynote in Finland“We dealt with the archive not as a technical cataloguing exercise but as part of a wider and regulatory ecosystem, breathing new life into an organisation’s system.”On Wednesday 13 November 2019, Juliet Scott, Principle Consultant and Artist in Residence, gave a key...
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“There is a story to tell every time people and objects meet.” Orhun Pamuk, The Innocence of MemoriesSix months have now passed since the launch of the archive blog and Pamuk’s tale of museums and culture still resonates as the archive project develops into a cultural piece at the heart of the Tavis...
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Wednesday 19th October, 1pm.by Dr Elizabeth Cory-Pearce, Dr Sadie King and Dr Mannie SherWe invite you to a lunchtime talk that will explore the proposition that an ‘anthropological thread’ runs through the history of our work as an organisation. Our starting point has been to delve into the Tavisto...
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The first 130 boxes from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) archive have now been catalogued and are available for researchers to discover, explore, and interpret at Wellcome Library. These papers – the registered document series (SA/TIH/B/1) – provide a framework for the research and...
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Did you attend any of our social dreaming matrices over the past six weeks, or are you curious to see what we explored in the sessions?If so we invite you to attend a review session on Wednesday 7th September at 3pm in the Wellcome Collection Reading Room.(Please note the original time has changed, ...
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So here’s the way we do things in the archive world: You have your boxes of papers, all messy and disorganised. Then you try and impose some order on them, trying to make sense of how the records were originally created and maintained. After a well-earned tea break (of course, a safe distance away f...
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This project concerned the development of measures of user satisfaction for university based repositories of archives and manuscripts for the Higher Education Funding Councils’ (HEFC) non formula funding of special collections in the humanities initiative (NFF).The development of these measures invo...
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This is a conversation between Hannah Eyles, Tavistock Institute archivist and Amy Proctor, the Tavistock Clinic archivist.In 2016 London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) were successful in securing a Wellcome Trust grant to undertake an innovative two year project to catalogue and index the corporate an...
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As a recently qualified Archivist, I have taken on the role of Project Archivist for this exciting project. In my first blog post, I offer just a short reflection on my new role and what it means to be newly involved at this exciting stage.Beginning a new job always brings that age old mixture of ex...
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On a blue skied Monday in July I made my way to Euston station to join Elena Carter, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relation’s (TIHR) archivist, at the Wellcome Trust. This was the first day of my short placement where I was helping to catalogue the remaining registered document series reports (SA...
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Drawing on archive materials from the time of the Tavistock Institute’s birth, this event allowed members of the public to try a range of psychological tests used by the army to select officers during the Second World War.The two-hour event put officer candidates through their paces with a mix of in...