Stories
- Photo story
The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
- Article
The sum of my parts
Testing positive for a rogue gene meant Jessica Furseth was more susceptible to cancer. After the years of anger and dissociation from her body that followed, she began to pick up the pieces.
- Book extract
A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
- Article
Our Covid complicity
Athena Stevens thought she had a cold that she tried to ignore, but it turned out to be Covid-19. Here she reflects on how we have all put ourselves and others at risk with the choices we’ve made during this pandemic.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Opticians: position of opticians who have obtained medical qualifications and wish to practice in the medical profession as doctors and ophthalmic opticians
Date: 1948-1949Reference: SA/BMA/D.211Part of: British Medical Association- Archives and manuscripts
Ophthalmic Opticians Register 1: Volume 1
Date: 1959-1967Reference: SA/GOC/D/4/1Part of: General Optical Council- Archives and manuscripts
Ophthalmic Opticians Register 1: Volume 2
Date: 1967-1991Reference: SA/GOC/D/4/2Part of: General Optical Council- Books
A school for dispensing opticians : prospectus / Guild of British Dispensing Opticians.
Guild of British Dispensing Opticians.Date: [1980?]