Editorial: Sixty yet still active!

copy of the British Orthoptic Journal the editorial1 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.2 In the president’s letter published in that first edition, Mary Maddox3 wrote: ‘This journal will afford a method of recording the progress of orthoptics.’ In the early years, fewer journals were available and perhaps more original work was submitted for con-sideration for publication in the British Orthoptic Journal. More recently the importance of evidence-based practice has been emphasised and we are now more critical of research papers considered for publica-tion. To carry out good clinical research the design of