Then and Now – Rummaging Through the HN Archives

Reconnaissance International has embarked on a major exercise to archive the back catalogue of Holography News®. The task, which is nearing completion, was to add digitised versions of the paper publications for the years 1987-2003 (for which we are indebted to Prof Hans Bjelkhagen for the loan of his library of HN newsletters) to the existing digital versions of later years that had been collated by former editor, Ian Lancaster.

Nowadays, the newsletter is created, published and archived electronically so that it is easily searchable. But reading through the scanned versions of back issues has the unexpected advantage of serendipity – stumbling upon events in holography as if they were unfolding in real time. More interestingly though, are the number of stories that were reported three decades ago that are still echoing to this day.