Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles, 1886-1969 (Knight and psychologist)

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Dates

Existence: 1886 - 1969

Biography

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett (1886-1969); B.A., 1st class, in Philosophy, University of London, 1909; M.A., London, 1911, special distinction in Sociology and Ethics. Bartlett attended St. John's College, Cambridge, 1911-1914, obtaining a 1st Class in the Moral Sciences Tripos, and became Assistant Director of the Psychological Laboratory, Cambridge. He was made Reader in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, 1922, and Director of the Psychological Laboratory, 1922-1952 and of the MRC Applied Pyschology Unit from 1945-1951 . He was Editor of the British Journal of Psychology, 1924-1948, and First Professor of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, 1931-1952. In 1932 Bartlett was elected to the Royal Society. He was made C.B.E. in 1941, and received the Baly Medal and the Huxley Medal in 1943. He was knighted in 1948.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

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A letter from Professor Bartlett to the Vice-Chancellor and the Council of the Senate, 22nd February 1937, 19370222

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3/3

Scope and Contents

This letter discusses proposals for extending the Department and allocating research grants with support from Rockefeller. Detailed funding plans are explored.

Dates: 19370222

Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory / Growth of the Psychology Department

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Correspondence, 1956 - 1971

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/RCOldfield/1

Dates: 1956 - 1971

Found in: Department of Psychology / Papers of R C Oldfield

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Directors’ Office papers and correspondence , 1943-2009

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10308/1

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence between the directors and scientists and staff working at the Unit, scientists working elsewhere in the UK and abroad, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and various government bodies. The subject matter includes research projects and proposals, careers of scientific researchers, security clearance and general personnel matters. There is a small amount of personal correspondence. The series also contains administrative files relating to the premises at 15...

Dates: 1943-2009

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Researchers wishing to consult this collection will be required to complete a data release form. Additionally, some material is closed following the Archive's confidentiality guidelines for sensitive data (in compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018)). Please see individual catalogue entries for details.

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Records of the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

Series

Growth of the Psychology Department, 1925 - 1939

Series

Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3

Dates: 1925 - 1939

Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory

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Letter to F. Bartlett from Charles Fox about more recognition for Educational Psychology as an academic subject, 19260601

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/8/7

Scope and Contents

Fox asserts that the question of establishing a lectureship in Educational Psychology should be taken further. He says that a formal protest should be made to the Appointments Committee about the fact that a lectureship in Educational Psychology has not yet been set up.

Dates: 19260601

Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory / Minutes, reports and notices of the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate (then the Board of Psychological Studies) / 'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies'

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Notice of a meeting of the Philosophical Society, 19390502

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/3/5

Scope and Contents The following papers were given: 'The transient response of the ear' by Rawdon-Smith and Sturdy, 'Some phenomena of visual adaptation' by K. J. W. Craik, 'Discrimination experiments with rats' by G. C. Drew, 'Some phenomena of visual perception' by R. C. Oldfield, 'An experiment on apparent visual movement' by O. L. Zangwill, 'Industrial applications of psychology' by Farmer, Chambers, Hotopf and Heim, 'The comparative study of thinking processes' by D. M. Carmichael, 'The effect of...

Dates: 19390502

Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory / Growth of the Psychology Department

Fonds

Papers of F C Bartlett

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/3377/FCBartlett

Scope and Contents

A small collection of Frederic Bartlett's papers, correspondence, and prints

Dates: 1914 - 1969

Found in: Department of Psychology

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Papers of Frederick Bartlett (Director, 1945-51), 1943 - 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10308/1/1

Scope and Contents

Comprises classified reports produced by Bartlett during the Second World War: ‘The role of the operator in tracking targets’, May 1944; ‘Instrument controls and display’, Dec. 1943; ‘The tasks of the operator in machine work’, Dec. 1943. All reports are stamped ‘Servo Library’.

Dates: 1943 - 1944

Found in: Cambridge University Library / Records of the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit / Directors’ Office papers and correspondence

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Papers of R C Oldfield

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/3377/RCOldfield

Dates: 1928 - 1972

Found in: Department of Psychology

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Remembering Dr Myers

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/CSMyers/4/1

Found in: Department of Psychology / The papers of C S Myers / Writing about Myers

Fonds

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett: Notebooks and Papers

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8076

Scope and Contents The collection covers Bartlett's scientific and professional work. It comprises notebooks, a small amount of correspondence, and drafts and notes for lectures, addresses and papers; many are written on the back of undergraduates' essays or examination scripts, and very few are dated. The collection includes notebooks of Bartlett's early experiments on memory and association tests, 1914-1917 (A.4; A.6-A.9; A.11). There is no biographical material as such, but B.86 contains an autobiographical...

Dates: 1950 (Circa)

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

Sub-Series

'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies', 19201025 - 19261018

Sub-Series

Reference Code: GBR/3377/EPLab/2/8

Dates: 19201025 - 19261018

Found in: Department of Psychology / Experimental Psychology Laboratory / Minutes, reports and notices of the Psychological Laboratory Syndicate (then the Board of Psychological Studies)

Fonds

The papers of J T MacCurdy

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC

Dates: 1913 - 1950

Found in: Department of Psychology

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Bartlett, Sir Frederic Charles, 1886-1969 (Knight and psychologist)

Dates

Biography

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

A letter from Professor Bartlett to the Vice-Chancellor and the Council of the Senate, 22nd February 1937, 19370222

Correspondence, 1956 - 1971

Directors’ Office papers and correspondence , 1943-2009

Growth of the Psychology Department, 1925 - 1939

Letter to F. Bartlett from Charles Fox about more recognition for Educational Psychology as an academic subject, 19260601

Notice of a meeting of the Philosophical Society, 19390502

Papers of F C Bartlett

Papers of Frederick Bartlett (Director, 1945-51), 1943 - 1944

Papers of R C Oldfield

Remembering Dr Myers

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett: Notebooks and Papers

'The Minute Book of the Board of Psychological Studies', 19201025 - 19261018

The papers of J T MacCurdy

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