Category Archives: books

September 25, 2021 · 1:07 pm

Books: Hear me talking about Through the Looking Glasses with Neil Denny on his Little Atoms podcast

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September 20, 2021 · 7:25 am

Books: Through the Looking Glasses featured in Zoe Cosby’s September highlights in Optician

Read online here: https://www.opticianonline.net/features/the-goods-a-new-start

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September 12, 2021 · 6:26 am

Books: Through the Looking Glasses featured on The Marilyn Report

In character as Pola from How to Marry a Millionaire, Marilyn is shown on the cover of Through the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough’s new history of spectacles (alongside jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, and the ultimate short-sighted movie icon, Michael Caine.) Here’s a sneak peek at the synopsis… “We learn how eyeglasses were the making of […]

Marilyn Through the Looking Glasses — The Marilyn Report

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September 10, 2021 · 7:24 pm

Books: Review of Through the Looking Glasses in Optician by Professor Sudi Patel

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https://www.opticianonline.net/features/books-changing-perceptions

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September 6, 2021 · 10:38 am

Books: Review of Through the Looking Glasses in the Camden New Journal by Stephen Griffin

Read in full online here: http://camdennewjournal.com/article/my-beautiful-lorgnette

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August 24, 2021 · 11:27 am

Read: The Joy of Specs, my piece on glasses for The Big Issue – now free to read online

The benefit of glasses for middle-aged eyes

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August 16, 2021 · 5:18 pm

Books: Review of Through the Looking Glasses by Andrew Lynch in Business Post

https://www.businesspost.ie/books/through-the-looking-glasses-an-enlightening-history-of-how-we-came-to-see-the-world-more-clearly-62367acc

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Picture: Through the Looking Glasses in Hatchard’s Piccadilly’s pick of their favourite new books

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August 14, 2021 · 5:24 pm
July 24, 2021 · 12:19 pm

Books: Review of Through the Looking Glasses by Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/24/through-the-looking-glasses-by-travis-elborough-review-the-spectacular-life-of-spectacles

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July 9, 2021 · 4:48 pm

Listen: Talking about Through the Looking Glasses on Monocle Radio

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https://monocle.com/radio/shows/monocle-on-design/extra-249/

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