Cataloguing the TIHR archiveFollowing a long appraisal process we are taking an exciting step in the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) archive project as we begin the preparations to catalogue our organisational archive. This will lead to the material becoming available to researchers i...
Relational Practices and the Tavistock Institute’s ArchiveWe are excited to announce a funded PhD project under the Arts and Humanities Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) scheme in collaboration with the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University (C-DaRE), which presents a unique opportunity t...
Working to open up our ‘Born Digital’ archive.In autumn 2014, the Tavistock Institute established its paper archive at the Wellcome Library – 300 boxes of paper files, catalogued by a dedicated archivist and made available to the world in 2016. It holds a comprehensive record of the formation, estab...
As an advisory group member of the Archive Project, I was stimulated to think of my personal archive and how to make it available to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) Archive process. After discovering some notes I had made in 1989 when I was part of a Board to which Eric Miller had...
Working on an organisation’s archive is not just a technical venture aiming at ordering and filing documents.Working on an organisation’s archive is working on an organisation’s history, on an organisation’s identity and primary task and on how this has been shaped over time and space.Working on an ...
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.”Juliet Scott, Principle Consultant and Artist in Residence, will be giving a keynote speech at the Mi...
Since October 2015, the archive of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations has been undergoing a transformation. The cataloguing of the extensive and varied materials for preservation and access has been at the heart of this, and the extent of materials available for consultation is steadily incr...
Book your place at ‘In the Shadow & Light of the Archive’.Reimagining Human Relations in Our Time is a festival celebrating 70 years of the Tavistock Institute. At the heart of the festival is the Institute’s archive which over the last two years has been intricately and delicately catalogued at Wel...
Metalpoint drawings and prints developed from work with the TIHR archive.“I am going to show you a series of pictures, all of which have people in them. For each picture I want you to imagine what might be going on and to describe this as fully as you can in a brief story.”From instructions on using...
The Tavistock Institute was commissioned by the Museums and Libraries and Archives (MLA) to evaluate the impact of the Framework for the Future (F4F) action plan on library services and the public library system, in support of the further improvement and development of the Framework action plan.A st...
This post by Karen Kiss, an archive student working with the Born Digital material, explores the Tavistock Institute’s archives on its annual Leicester conference, highlighting the importance of the reports and feedback written about the event and the ethical considerations linked to working with th...
Celebrating the publication of the Tale of TavilandThrough engaging with the recently catalogued Archive, Eliat Aram, the CEO of the Tavistock Institute, takes a radical stance at redefining those motivated to work in this tradition as ‘Tavistockians’ and sifts through 70+ years of the Tavistock Ins...
This article describes the current role of the Wellcome Trust in the Tavistock Institute Archive Project.The partner organisation to the Tavistock Institute’s Archive Project is the Wellcome Trust, “an independent global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health, because good health makes ...
I am a PhD researcher exploring embodied methods of inquiry in the archives of the Tavistock Institute, in partnership with Coventry University and Midland4Cities Doctoral Training. I am particularly interested in the relationship between moving, thinking and the perception and valuing of time, and...
new drop down landing page to have tiles to include Our story, Archive, [Timeline with graphics now included in Our Story]...
This Food for Thought Lunchtime talk will take place in-person This lunchtime talk will share Heni Hale's process of encountering archive materials of The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), and its 70 + years of social science action research from a systems psychodynamic perspective. Rec...
In November 2020, an 18-month Wellcome Trust-funded Archive Project began to catalogue the records of psychoanalyst and organisational consultant Harold Bridger (1909-2005). The project is based within the Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collections, part of the Mulberry Bush Charit...
We are looking to work with a Digital Records Management Consultant to advise and consult on the next state of our internal archive project.The archive of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations (TIHR) provides a comprehensive record of the formation, establishment and development of the Institu...
We are looking to work with a Digital Records Management Consultant to advise and consult on the next state of our internal archive project.The archive of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations (TIHR) provides a comprehensive record of the formation, establishment and development of the Institu...
Are you a Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) historian?As part of the TIHR archive project we have been working on developing the biographies of TIHR employees, past and present. These profiles will help to enhance the catalogue and provide key information that will be useful for research...