About the archive
The archive aims to create the largest collection of dental neckties and a fascinating record of the individuals, institutions and organisations they represent.
Donations to the archives
If you have one or more dental ties not included in the Archive, please consider making a donation to the Archive. Also, if you belong to an organisation which has a tie not included in the Archive, please ask the officers or administration of the organisation to donate a tie to the Archive. The more ties the better. In making a donation, please label individual ties and provide whatever information you may have on the history of the tie and the event or organisation to which it pertains. Also, if you have a tie in better condition than the one in the Archive, please consider donating it to help improve the quality of the ties in the collection. All contributors will have their name added to the list of donors to the Archive.
Donations should be sent to the BDA Museum Dental Necktie Archive, British Dental Association HQ, 64 Wimpole Street London W1G 8YS.
Please use our contact page to speak to us about a donation
Our donors
Our thanks go to every individual, organisation and institution that has donated a necktie so far.
Amin Aminian
Jerry Asquith
Peter Baxter
Bill Beare
Dick Birkin
Malcolm Bishop
Andrew Blackstock
British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Mark Bowen
John Brookman
Cindy Brown
David Brown
Donald Burden
Frank Burke
Roger Burr
Richard Butler
Stephen Challacombe
Iain Chapple
Brain Clark
David Craig
(Stephen) Barry Clayton, in memory of his father John Reginald Clayton LDS VU Manchester 1939
Faculty of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Michael Copeland
Iain Corran
Jonathan Cowpe
Daniel Davies
Colin Dawes
Phillip Dowell
Kenneth (Ken) Eaton
David Eldridge
Leon Ellis
Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK)
James Hardy
Shelagh Farrell
Carl Fenwick
Nigel Fisher
Martin Fulford
John Gamon
Ian Gainsford
Geoff Garnett
Per-Olof Glantz
Richard Graham
Mike Gow, including ties of the late Jim Gall
James Gutmann
Alan Hall
Stephen Hancocks
James (Jim) Hardy
Anthony (Tony) Hawkes
Christopher Hayward
Richard Hayward
David Hillam
Victor Holden
Michael (Mick) Horton
John Hunt
Vladimir Ivanovic
Stuart Johnson
Adrian Jordan
Joseph (Joe) Kenneally
Nicola Knight, in memory of her late husband Adrian Knight
Louis Kramer
Robert Lamb
Victor (Vic) Lanctis
Klaus Lang
Mike Lewis
Bas Loomans
Chris Lynch
Lester Long
Yann Maidment
Clive Marks
Gary Mendham
Ian Mills
Howard Moody
Roy Morris
John (Johnny) Muir
Brian Murray
Ross MacCallum
Jim McDonald
David McGowan
New Zealand Dental Association
William (Bill) Nichols
Eugene O’Malley
Trent Outhouse
Maureen Powell-Davies
Malcolm Prideaux
David Radford
Sehiy Radlinsky
Helen Renner in memory of her husband Archie Renner
Ron Robinson
Stuart Robson
Craig Rushforth
Akira Senda
Winston Senior
Gordon Seward
Eddie Scher
Richard Smith
Andrew Spielman
Derek Stafford
Chris Stephens
Pearse Stinson
Nick Stolls
Peter Swiss
Robert (Robbie) Thomson
TMFV Archigenes, Groningen, The Netherlands
Peter Thornley
Chris Turner
Martin Tyas
Mahesh Verma
Damien Walmsley
Michael Watson
Brian Westbury
Western Dental Golf Club
Richard Whatley
Andrew Wilkinson
Derrick Wilmot
Nairn Wilson
Albert Yeung
Acknowledgements
In addition to thanking all the donors to the Archive, many of whom provided the histories and related information, thanks must be extended to the staff of the British Dental Association (BDA) Library for their invaluable assistance in researching information, the Honorary Curator and volunteers of the BDA Museum for their unswerving support and encouragement, Professor Damien Walmsley for his tremendous work as official photographer of the Archive, and the many other individuals, ranging from tie manufacturers to officers of bodies and organisations, who have generously given their time to enhance the content of the Archive.
Errors and omissions
Every effort has been made to provide accurate background information on the ties included in the Archive. If any information is inaccurate or incomplete, please send details of corrections and suggested additions to either Nairn Wilson (nairn.wilson@btinternet.com) who leads the Dental Necktie Archive project, or Rachel Bairsto, Director of Museum Services at the BDA (Rachel.Bairsto@bda.org). In the meantime, apologies for any unintended omissions or errors.