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In the second half of a two-part article, Kathryn Maxson Jones highlights further resources on the history of neuroscience and squid giant axon research in the Royal Society’s collections.

In the first half of a two-part article, Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant recipient Kathryn Maxson Jones describes the impact of squid giant axons on the history of neuroscience using the Society’s collections.

Jon Bushell looks at the career of A V Hill FRS, awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on heat in muscles, and a leading light in the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning during World War II.

When pharmacologist Heinz Otto Schild was interned on the Isle of Man in 1940, the Royal Society was among the organisations working to secure his freedom.