Engaging with our archive | Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

Engaging with our archive

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

Our work with the archive

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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

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Searching for embodied experiences of work and labour in the Institute’s archive

A vast, empty expanse of a salt flat under a clear blue sky. A single white contrail stretches diagonally across the sky, and the landscape is flat and barren, with subtle variations in the salt's surface color.

Preservation and mutability: salt and the archive – two dynamic systems

I have been thinking about salt a lot recently. Maybe a strange way to start a blog for the TIHR Archive Project but...

A pair of black headphones rests next to a handwritten mind map on white paper, featuring various colored boxes and lines connecting topics such as GOVERNANCE and RECORDS, with notes highlighted in yellow and green.

Fitting square pegs into round holes: why a traditional hierarchical arrangement wouldn’t work...

So here’s the way we do things in the archive world: You have your boxes of papers, all messy and disorganised. Then you...

A weathered document with text partially obscured by dark stains and discoloration. Only some words are legible, such as "Excess of Income," "Assuming Grants," and numbered notes below with text mostly indecipherable.

The fight between mould and dust: a free association from the archive

When the boxes from the archive were opened and the material was explored for cataloguing Elena Carter, with a worried look, told the...

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Sweets, Cats and Kitchens: My experience cataloguing the TIHR archive material

On a blue skied Monday in July I made my way to Euston station to join Elena Carter, the Tavistock Institute of Human...

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ENGAGING WITH THE ARCHIVE

The Archive is held at Wellcome Collection

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations’ archive can be found by searching on Wellcome Library’s online catalogue, using the reference: SA/TIH.

The archive is freely available for researchers to access.

For queries relating to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations archive, please contact collections@wellcome.ac.uk or call +44 (0)20 7611 8722.

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