Tony Gibson Papers

Period 1977-1998
Total size  0.25 m.
Consultation  Not restricted

Biography

Hamilton Bertie Gibson, known as Tony; born 1914, died 2001; British psychologist, anarchist; active as an artist's model; posed for an advertisement of Brylcreem 1939; in 1940 this advertisement was added a RAF cap plus the caption 'For active service' but Gibson himself was at that time a conscientious objector working as an ambulance man and a farm labourer; studied medicine, sociology and clinical psychology; research psychologist at the Institute of Criminilogy, University of Cambridge 1961-1969; founded in 1970 the Department of Psychology at Hatfield Polytechnic (University of Hertfordshire) which he headed until 1976; first president of the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis from 1978 on; interviewed in the 1990s elder British anarchists resulting in the typescript 'Kindling the Phoenix Nest. Interviews with pioneers of anarchism in post-war Britain'.

Content

Records of his interviews with Philip Sansom and George Woodcock [1992].

Correspondence and some transcriptions of his interviews with Cyril Cannon, Nicholas Comfort, Rudolf de Jong, Sid Parker, Vernon Richards, Donald Rooum, Harold Sculthorpe, Rufus and Sheila Segar, Jack and Mary Stevenson, Colin Ward, George Woodcock and others 1977-1998; other documents relating to his research for 'Kindling the Phoenix Nest. Interviews with pioneers of anarchism in post-war Britain'.