The British Orthoptic Society published the first British
Orthoptic Journal in 1939, the second appeared in 1944
then, with the exception of 1946, annually. In the first
copy of the British Orthoptic Journal the editorial
outlines the events leading up to the formation of the
British Orthoptic Society, and this and the subsequent
history of the Society is described in the 1987 editorial,
the year of the Society’s Golden Jubilee. In the
president’s letter published in that first edition, Mary
Maddox wrote: ‘This journal will afford a method of
recording the progress of orthoptics.
