ABSTRACT
Mick Billig, who was an undergraduate student at Bristol at the time, recalls that several of the lecturers were poor teachers, when they bothered to show up at all. During ongoing negotiations with Bristol, Henri Tajfel was also discussing other job possibilities. Henri was stuck with Bristol at least for the time being. In December 1968, students at Bristol, like others around the country in that year and the next, became more than usually restive. Whilst Henri was busy concerning himself with building up the Bristol department, establishing his new research projects and helping to run the newly formed European Association, he soon had something else to worry about. At some point in 1966, Henri was interviewed for the position, and shortly afterwards, departed for the United States to spend a year’s sabbatical as a Fellow at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Palo Alto, California.
