Metadata : Henri Tajfel
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Wellcome Collection
- Holding institution (official language):
- Wellcome Collection
- Postal address:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 8722
- Web address:
- https://wellcomecollection.org
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Wellcome Collection
- Holding institution (official language):
- Wellcome Collection
- Postal address:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 8722
- Web address:
- https://wellcomecollection.org
- Reference number:
- PSY/TAJ
- Title:
- Henri Tajfel
- Title (official language):
- Henri Tajfel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tajfel, Henri
- Date(s):
- 1959/1982
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 64 boxes
- Scope and content:
- The varied papers of Professor Henri Tajfel, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Bristol. Series includes; correspondence; publishing; lectures; conferences and committees. File level descriptions are also available.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Henri Tajfel (1919-1982) was born in Poland of Jewish descent. He was educated in several European countries and spent the Second World War in the French army and as a prisoner of war. After the war, he worked with refugees and war victims, and then moved to Britain where he re-started his higher education at Birkbeck College, London. He taught social psychology at Durham and Oxford before moving to Bristol, in 1967, as its first Professor of Social Psychology. He held a variety of visiting appointments in Europe and elsewhere, and was a founder member and President of the European Association of Social Psychology. Tajfel was a prolific author of many books and articles. He edited the series European Monographs on Social Psychology for Academic Press. His major contibutions to the study of intergroup relations and social conflict are well captured by his book Human Groups and Social Categories.
- Access points: locations:
- Bristol
- Access points: persons/families:
- Tajfel, Henri
- Access, restrictions:
- The material is available in the library at Wellcome Collection subject to the usual conditions of access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wellcomecollection.org/works/hffe7ed9
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Reference number:
- PSY/TAJ
- Title:
- Henri Tajfel
- Title (official language):
- Henri Tajfel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tajfel, Henri
- Date(s):
- 1959/1982
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 64 boxes
- Scope and content:
- The varied papers of Professor Henri Tajfel, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Bristol. Series includes; correspondence; publishing; lectures; conferences and committees. File level descriptions are also available.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Henri Tajfel (1919-1982) was born in Poland of Jewish descent. He was educated in several European countries and spent the Second World War in the French army and as a prisoner of war. After the war, he worked with refugees and war victims, and then moved to Britain where he re-started his higher education at Birkbeck College, London. He taught social psychology at Durham and Oxford before moving to Bristol, in 1967, as its first Professor of Social Psychology. He held a variety of visiting appointments in Europe and elsewhere, and was a founder member and President of the European Association of Social Psychology. Tajfel was a prolific author of many books and articles. He edited the series European Monographs on Social Psychology for Academic Press. His major contibutions to the study of intergroup relations and social conflict are well captured by his book Human Groups and Social Categories.
- Access points: locations:
- Bristol
- Access points: persons/families:
- Tajfel, Henri
- Access, restrictions:
- The material is available in the library at Wellcome Collection subject to the usual conditions of access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wellcomecollection.org/works/hffe7ed9
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
