Editing St Hugh's College, Oxford (section)

=== Second World War ===
At the outbreak of the Second World War the college site was requisitioned by the military for use as the Hospital for Head Injuries under the directorship of [[Hugh Cairns (surgeon)|Hugh Cairns]], the first Nuffield Professor of Surgery.<ref name="nl2011p20">St Hugh's College Spring Newsletter 2011 at page 20</ref> Brick huts were constructed in the college grounds with space for 300 beds. Between 1940 and 1945, over 13,000 servicemen and women were treated at the college.<ref name="nl2011p20"/> Advances in medicine discovered at the hospital meant the mortality rate for brain-penetrating injuries fell from 90% to 9%.<ref name="nl2011p20"/> Staff and students were relocated to Holywell Manor, Savile House and St Hilda's College for the duration of the war.<ref name="nl2011p10">St Hugh's College Spring Newsletter 2011 at page 10</ref>

In 1943 the college acquired the leasehold of 72 Woodstock Road (known as The Shrubbery) from Dame Gertrude Whitehead for £1,500. It was used as a club for American soldiers during the war.<ref name="nl2011p10"/> In 1946, it was leased to the University of Paris as the [[Maison française d'Oxford]], an Anglo-French educational establishment. One of the cottages in the grounds of number 72 was later leased by Barbara Gwyer after her retirement as principal.<ref name="nl2011p10"/>