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
Optician / Bamforth & Co., Ltd.
Date: [between 1970 and 1979?]- Archives and manuscripts
The Dispensing Optician
British and Irish Orthoptic SocietyDate: 1957-1970sReference: SA/OPS/C/4/2Part of: British and Irish Orthoptic Society- Archives and manuscripts
Extracts from The Optician
British and Irish Orthoptic SocietyDate: 1930-1931Reference: SA/OPS/C/4/4Part of: British and Irish Orthoptic Society- Archives and manuscripts
Committee for the preparation of Rules under Section 25 (3) of the Optician's Act, 1958
Date: 1959-1960Reference: SA/GOC/A/2Part of: General Optical Council- Ephemera
Opticians ephemera. Box 1.