Thirtieth Anniversary Issue

The very first issue of Liquid Crystals appeared in February 1986, representing the culmination of a year of intense effort by the founding Editors, Geoffrey Luckhurst and Ed Samulski (Figure 1), and the publishers Taylor & Francis. I was a second year PhD student under Geoffrey’s supervision at that time, and clearly remember him proudly showing that inaugural issue to his research group. Little could I imagine then that 30 years and almost 6000 papers later, I would be writing the Preface for this Thirtieth Anniversary Issue.