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Archive-A-Live!

A symposium exploring the Tavistock Institute’s archive.Join us for an exploratory day, including lunch, on 7 November, looking at the significance of the Tavistock Institute’s archive and the emerging practice of researching it.The day will include presentations, a ‘Pop-up’ showcase from the Wellco...

Accessing Archives workshops

Portsmouth History Centre18 + 25 April 202410amThe interviews and transcripts from the PARCS Grows Everybody project are held at Portsmouth History Centre, on the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library in Guildhall Square.On 18 and 25 April, at 10am, Michael Gunton, Senior Archivist with Portsmo...

Living Archive Conversations

You are invited to join an informal conversation group about the earlier years of the Tavistock Institute and its interaction with and impact on ‘partner’ organisations and to contribute your memories and reflections. Our shared lived experiences may add important additional material to the Archive,...

Living Archive Conversations

This session was an informal conversation about the earlier years of the Tavistock Institute and its interaction with and impact on ‘partner’ organisations and to contribute your memories and reflections. The session reflected on how shared lived experiences and memory of where we have traveled from...

Past, Present & Future: From the Tavistock Institute Archive

The archive exhibition traces the pioneering work of the Tavistock Institute throughout its 70 year history of applying the social sciences to real life problems. Using archival documents recently brought into the light and made accessible at Wellcome Library, the display positions past, present and...

National Archives Council

Breathing the Archive: Tavistock archive activity day

This one-off workshop will offer collective, participatory and kinesthetic experiences of encountering materials from the Tavistock Institute’s archive.Dance/performance practice-researcher Heni Hale invites you to join her in encountering our multi-faceted archive. Heni Hale is a postgraduate resea...

Encountering our archive materials through artistic practice-as-research

Performance researcher Heni Hale is using the Tavistock archive to explore the meaning of work then and now.Artistic practice-as-researchHeni's research focus is on the TIHR archive, especially studies from the 1950’s and 60s and the socio technical systems theories that emerged in that period....

Exploring Harold Bridger’s Archive

Bridger’s Legacy Within and Beyond the InstituteThis talk explores the ways in which Harold Bridger shaped the history, memory, and identity of the Tavistock Institute between the years 1947 and c.1990. The talk features Harold Bridger’s records from TIHR’s founding years, early action research proj...

Engaging with our archive

We celebrate and re imagine the 75-plus years work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations by making the archive accessible and engaging newly with it ARCHIVE MAIN COLLECTION We celebrate and re imagine the 75-plus years work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations by making our archive ...

Call for Proposals: Archive-A-Live!

Exploring responses to the Tavistock Institute’s Archive.A Tavistock Institute Annual SymposiumDeadline for proposals – 18 August 2019On the 7th November 2019, we will host a one-day Symposium in central London exploring responses to the Tavistock Institute’s Archive. The Tavistock Institute has a h...

Call for Proposals: Archive-A-Live!

Exploring responses to the Tavistock Institute’s Archive.A Tavistock Institute Annual SymposiumOn the 7th November 2019, we will host a one-day Symposium in central London exploring responses to the Tavistock Institute’s Archive. The Tavistock Institute has a heritage of participatory research and p...

TIHR wins National Archive Scoping Grant!

Born Digital – kickstarting the next phase of our archive strategy.We are excited to announce, following a trailblazing application from Dr Liz Cory-Pearce and Juliet Scott, that the Tavistock Institute has won a Scoping Grant to begin the second and ‘Born Digital’ phase of the Tavistock Institute’s...

Conversations from the Archive

This is a conversation between Liz Cory-Pearce, Sadie King, and Mannie Sher that unfolded in the Wellcome Library reading room whilst working on the anthropological threads project. It was captured and written by Liz, who, as an anthropologist, was both participating in and observing and recording t...

What’s our archive got to do with me? The challenges of collective reflection

Susanne Mors from the European Cultural Foundation asks the question what is the archive in the mind as an interesting parallel to TIHR’s own archive as organisational development.Inspired by a meeting with Juliet Scott and Hannah Walsh of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations last February, wh...

Library Tour & Archive Show & Tell

Join us to take a walk around Wellcome Library, exploring deep in the basement stacks to see where the Tavistock Institute archive is housed, and through the library to see how the Institute’s history connects with other collection holdings.The tour will begin at the Library desk, weaving its way do...

Library Tour & Archive Show & Tell

During this walk around Wellcome Library we explored the basement stacks to see where the Tavistock Institute archive is housed, and walked through the library to see how the Institute’s history connects with other collection holdings.The tour began at the Library desk, weaving its way down to the b...

In Praise of Archives

Post by Stephen Cummings and Todd BridgmanWhen we visited the Tavistock Institute archive in 2013 it looked like it had seen better days. It consisted of box files pushed into cupboards. But all the documents were intact and are now gradually being catalogued, thanks to Juliet Scott and her team at ...