Queen Square Archives news

Please see Archives website for news and events including:

Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology

We’re delighted to be able to offer a new discounted rate of £44 for staff and alumni at NHNN and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. The full price is now £49 (previously £59.99). To claim this discount, please email info@nationalbrainappeal.org.

International Women and Girls in Science Day 2021

To celebrate this day, we have updated the handout from the exhibition celebrating the centenary of Votes for Women in the UK, to be held in Queen Square Library February-April 2018. Please see also UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences news item

Film footage of Queen Square staff in 1930s

We are very grateful to Denis Robertson for supplying Queen Square Archives with digitised cine film footage taken by E Graeme Robertson in 1933, and to George Kaim for creating a set of stills, which we are making available on the Queen Square Archives website.

The Making of a Soulful Neurologist The Polyphony, February 2021

Professor Andrew Lees, Professor of Neurology at the National Hospital, Queen Square and at University College London and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world in the field of Parkinson’s disease, reflects movingly on his medical education.

Brainland: the opera

Brainland is new opera based on true stories from the history of 20th century neuroscience, uncovered during research for two visual art exhibitions, created by artist Ken Barrett for Queen Square Archives: Manhandling the Brain, 2016 and Wavecraft: Messages from another world 2018.

Design and making remained integral to the creation of the libretto and the testing out ideas. This included drawing, models, dioramas and animations. We are hoping to host an exhibition of these later in 2021.

The website includes an interview with Professor Andrew Lees.

Grandfather clock

A beautiful grandfather clock, currently in the medical offices in Queen Square, which features in the December 19th 1939 Board Minutes, referenced in Chapter 5 (Roller-coaster Ride and the National Hospital Rubs Along 1902–1945) of Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology.

Second International Congress of Neurology 1935

Following the first International Congress of Neurology in 1931, in Berne, Switzerland, (Koehler 2018), the second congress was held at University College London July 29-Aug. 2, 1935. The congress coincided with the centenary of the birth of John Hughlings Jackson.

Reynolds EH. The John Hughlings Jackson 1935 Centenary Congress Medal, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2005;76:858-859.

Lillian B. Boettcher BAand Sarah T. Menacho MD. The early argument for prefrontal leucotomy: the collision of frontal lobe theory and psychosurgery at the 1935 International Neurological Congress in London. Neurosurg Focus 43 (3) 2017

Please contact David Blundred if you would be able to help identify those attending the Congress - please see example photographs below.