The Indexer forty years ago (October 1986)

Hazel Bell, editor of The Indexer from 1978 to 1995, reflects on the content of the journal 40 years ago. In this issue, she travels back to the October 1986 issue, which contained some tough talk by the editor and possibly the only photograph of a giraffe in the history of the journal. You can look further back in time with the ‘ The Indexer forty years ago’ series, which started in the September 2021 issue, or ‘ The Indexer thirty years ago’ series, which was published from 1991 to 2008.