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Queen Square Archives

The Library houses the archive and museum collections of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and the Institute of Neurology. 

Full details can be found on the Queen Square Archives web site. Full details of the archives cataloged to date are also on the UCL Special Collections catalogue (choose UCL Institute of Neurology as the storage site to limit to our holdings).

The Library collections, the archives and the museum in combination are a unique and extensive resource. They help tell the medical, scientific, educational and social story of the development of neurology, neurosurgery and neuroscience at Queen Square, and the people who worked here. Our aims is to make these resources available to as wide an audience as possible, and to promote further academic and public understanding of these areas.

Please follow the links to the right for more about the collections and how you can access them.

The archive collections of the NHNN include:

• An extensive collection of 1500 bound volumes of case notes covering the years 1863-1946 including many examples of early medical photography. A list of volumes is now available, arranged by physician and date. A hand written index has recently been found, but is in poor condition, and access is limited. >> see Access to health and other sensitive records
• Extensive administrative records for the Hospital from 1859 – 1946, plus some more recent material. This includes correspondence, minutes, financial records and reports. >> see Access to archives
• A large collection of press cuttings. >> see Access to archives
• Employment records for all categories of staff from 1860-1946.>> see Access to archives
• Cine films. see Access to health and other sensitive records
• Patient admission registers and other health records. >> see Access to health and other sensitive records
• Deeds, plans and insurance documents. see Access to archives
• Approximately 3000 photographs >> see Access to digital images
• A range of other material.

Library, museum and archive refurbishment generously supported by the Brain Research Trust and the National Hospital Development Foundation.

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