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Welcome to the British Optical Association Museum’s historical blog. In future the museum curator will be writing on all aspects of ophthalmic, optometric and optical history, including antique spectacles, old optician’s equipment, lenses, contact lenses, spectacles in art, microscopes and telescopes, artificial eyes, universities, examinations or any manner of other eye-related topics. We don’t want to be restrictive, but (just like the objects in our world famous collections) all posts will have something to do with the heritage of eyes, vision and the professional people who look after them for us. Find out what enquiries we’ve been dealing with and help us research new topics. Discover where the curator has been, who he has met and what he has found out. Send in your comments to help the museum reach an ever clearer understanding of these subjects. |
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American Road Trip
I have just returned from an all-American road-trip in the company of a British optometrist, an American ophthalmologist, his wife... and several cats. They say travel broadens the mind and certa...
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Smoke gets in your eyes
It is now an established fact that smoking is harmful to health. Smoking is an increased risk factor in various diseases and conditions. Stopping smoking is often a d...
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Thinking Outside The Box
Mrs H of Surrey is our latest museum hero. We’re most grateful for her recent donation to us of a box filled with some extremely interesting ophthalmic items t...
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Idiot Glasses
At some point during the later Renaissance the idea took hold that wearing spectacles could be a sign of intelligence, or of intellectual sophistication. It had not always been so. ...
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The Only Way is Ethics
Hands up if you knew that this year was the 75th anniversary of the Code of Ethics? You can put your hands down now. Indeed I missed the precise anniversary myself, which was last month. Over the Summer of 1936 the British Optical Association an...
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Cult Eyewear - Closing the Book and Opening the Exhibition
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. October 24th had been in my diary for some time. An early press release from my publisher, Merrell, had indicated that today was the day my first full-length book Cult Eyewear - The World's Enduring Cl...
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Introducing Pecktacles
I've always wanted to coin a new word. As custodian of (allegedly) the spectacles of the great lexicographer Dr Johnson himself it somehow seems appropriate...and here it is: Pecktacle (pe-ktak'l) - A protective device for preventing hens from pecki...
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Record keeping 1920s style
I was amused to read the instructions to the patient at the bottom of these pre-printed prescription charts. 'You are requested not to lose this prescription' it says. There's none of today's 'please ...
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Spectacular Magic is over for Harry Potter
I've never been one for crowds and sometimes wish I could wave a magic wand and make them go away. Over the past few days it was the prospect of seeing a boy magician that brought the crowds down Crav...
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The Devil's Spectacles
At last I have read Wilkie Collins' famous short story 'The Devil's Spectacles'. It is a strange tale of an old-fashioned pair of spectacles that were supposedly given to a polar explorer by Satan himself as a reward for having descended to the bases...
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