| Level | File |
| Ref No | PHO/001/04/09/04 |
| Title | Opening of the Lucy Fildes Building, Canterbury Christchurch University - Salomons Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent |
| Site | Canterbury Christchurch University |
| Photographer | Lucy Parker, Assistant Archivist, History of Psychology Centre |
| Date | 2019 |
| Extent | photographs |
| Physical Description | Digital Images |
| Description | Seven digital images of the 2019 Opening of the Lucy Fildes Building, Canterbury Christ Church University. Includes external images of the building (3) , Professor Elizabeth Valentine giving a presentation on Lucy Fildes (2) and reception (2). |
| Caption | 20 March 2019 the official naming of the Lucy Fildes Building, 1 Meadow Road, Tunbridge Wells. The building is home to the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology ( part of the Canterbury Christ Church University) which relocated from Southborough in August 2017.
Fildes had a long career devoted to the study of learning disabilities and championed the work of educational psychologists in Britain. She contributed many papers to meetings of the British Psychological Society and articles to the British Journal of Psychology. She became one of the Society’s first Fellows, and was the senior founding member of its Division of Educational and Child Psychology. Fildes was awarded an OBE in 1951.
Fildes set up a child guidance clinic in Tonbridge which moved to Tunbridge Wells and that she lived in Tunbridge Wells for the last thirty years of her life.
Following HoPC's 2017 Stories of Psychology event, curated by the BPS Womens Section, on the history of Women connected with Psychology, Professor Jan Burns, Faculty Director of Research at the Salomon's Institute, looking to name their new building, had consulted Elizabeth Valentine on historic women psychologists who may have had a connection with Tunbridge Wells. Elizabeth Valentine suggested Lucy Fildes, whose story had resonated with staff at the Centre. Elizabeth Valentine also published a piece on Lucy Fildes in The Psychologist, February 2019, titled, ‘A lady of unusual ability and force of character’. |
| Format | Digital |
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| RelatedRecord | PHO/001/02/172 |
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| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 21 |
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| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre. |