Legal Registration of Psychologists and Steering Committee on Registration

This subseries relates to the legal registration of psychologists, mainly comprising papers of or generated by the Steering Committee on Registration which was set up in 1981 but also including earlier material on the subject.

1964-1988

25 files

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in February 2009.

Previously the BPS had been restricted to the functions of a learned Society. Since it was founded in 1901 and until 1941constitution was adopted the Society had been open to individuals wishing to discuss psychological theories and report on experimental work. In 1941 the opinion of the Society's legal advisers on registration was that we should first move towards incorporation by Royal Charter. This charter was granted in 1965. A few years later, the Society began to make preparations for introducing a Bill to Parliament for the legal registration of psychologists in the UK. The issue of the legal registration of psychologists in the UK was brought before members of the Society in general meeting for the first time at the AGM in April 1970.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.