Tommy (ATM) Wilson: archives

Records created and kept by Tommy (ATM) Wilson, including correspondence with Harold Bridger, ATM Wilson seminars and a commemorative symposium, 1980, and collected articles and cuttings.

1949-1981

1 box

Founder member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations; First Chairman of the Staff group.

Before WWII, Wilson had been the Rockefeller Research Fellow and Physician at the Tavistock Clinic. Wilson worked in Western Command from 1941 and conducted work on morale with Tom Main. From November 1943, Wilson studied the problems of returning POWs. He had watched the Northfield Experiments with interest and worked in the Middle East, and viewed Prisoner of War problems as linked with dissociation. After convincing the War Office that a therapeutic organisation to deal with repatriated POWs had to be regimental not medical, he headed up the CRU programme with Richard Meadows Rendel. He returned to the Tavistock after the war, and also became a founder member of the Institute of Human Relations. He later left the Tavistock to work for Unilever.

Wellcome Collection also hold the following related archives: - Harold Bridger (PP/BRI) - Eric Trist (PP/TRI) - Alex Pollock (PP/POL) - The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (SA/TIH).

Acquired by Wellcome Collection in April 2026 prior to the closure of the Mulberry Bush Third Space (MB3) archive service. This collection was originally acquired as part of Harold Bridger's archive collection between 2000 and 2005 (acc nos. 2001.052, 2002.11) by the Planned Environment Therapy Trust|Archive and Study Centre (PETT). This material was separated from the main Harold Bridger archive during cataloguing in 2021 to form its own archive collection. Ownership transferred by the Planned Environment Therapy Trust (PETT) to the Mulberry Bush Organisation at the end of December 2018, at which point it joined the Mulberry Bush Third Space (MB3) archive service.

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Copyright in material created by Harold Bridger has been transferred to Wellcome Collection at the point of acquisition via Mulberry Bush Third Space Archive service (MB3) in 2026. This copyright was previously owned by the Planned Environment Trust Archive and Study Centre who acquired the collection and subsequently transferred to MB3 in December 2018. The copyright in all other material is held by a range of rights holders. You are free to use the material in any way that is permitted by copyright exceptions and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights holder.

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Due to ongoing work to improve our collections management systems we are unable to facilitate access to uncatalogued material until 2027.