Today's neuroscience, tomorrow's history: a video archive project

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place.

Hard-copy transcripts of the interviews and related papers. In addition there is a quantity of digital files relating to the editing and publication of the interviews which have yet to be assessed.

2006-2009

1 box; 2136 digital files

These records were donated to the library at Wellcome Collection by Tilli Tansey between 2009 and 2011.

This project was funded by the Wellcome Trust and undertaken by Dr Tilli Tansey of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London and Professor Leslie Iverson of the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Mr Richard Thomas conducted the interviews.

The aim of the project was to interview on film twelve prominent neuroscientists, from three disciplines: neuropharmacology; psychiatry / neuropsychology; and neuroimaging. The interviewees were:

Geoffrey Burnstock

Salvador Moncada

Ann Silver

Alan North

Michael Rutter

Uta Frith

Elizabeth Warrington

Richard Gregory

Peter Mansfield

Roger Ordidge

Terry Jones

Richard Frackowiak.

The interviews took place between August 2006 and June 2008. Each interview lasted three hours. The initial interview was then edited to remove the interviewer's questions and a final tape of just under an hour was produced. A full transcript of this shorter interview was also prepared. The transcription, editing and indexing was completed in March 2009. The interviews were then segmented for transmission as podcasts and made widely available from a project website and from iTunes and YouTube, as well as being distributed on CD.

The project web-site, from which the interviews may be accessed as .mp3 audio files and youtube video is now maintained at Queen Mary University of London and may be accessed here.

This collection has been partially catalogued and the catalogued part is available to library members. Some items have access restrictions which are explained in the item-level catalogue records. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

It is likely that many of the digital files relating to the editing and publication of the interviews will be disposed of after assessment.

In addition the DVDs containing the following working copies of the of the interviews have already been disposed of:

Sir Peter Mansfied;

1 x editorial approval copy (01/09/07)

1 x editorial approval copy (22/11/07)

Richard Gregory

1 x editorial copy 21/02/07 Version 2

1 x final approval version

Richard Frackowiak

1 x editorial approval copy (06/03/08)

Roger Ordidge

1 x editorial approval copy (nd)

Terry Jones

1 x editorial approval copy (nd)

Uta Frith

1 x editorial approval copy (13/02/07) Version 2

1 x editorial approval copy (22/12/06)

Geoffrey Burnstock

1 x editorial approval copy (07/04/08)

Ann Silver

1 x editorial approval copy (nd)

Alan North

1 x editorial approval copy (nd)

Salvador Moncada

1 x editorial approval copy (nd)

Michael Rutter

1 x editorial approval copy (14/03/07) Version 2

Elizabeth Warrington

3 x final approval version (BITC)