Blackwell, B H, Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Blackwell, Benjamin
- Blackwell, Sir Basil
- Blackwell, Basil, & Mott
- Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, South East, England
Sectors:
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Distribution - retailing
Books & other publications retailing
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Publishing & printing
Newspaper & periodical publishing
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Publishing & printing
Other publishing
Notes:
Traced origins as booksellers to 1879 when established by Benjamin H Blackwell, d1924, and traded as B H Blackwell. Emerged as leading academic booksellers. Soon diversified into book publishing, establishing a Publications Dept in 1913, which was later managed by (Sir) Basil Blackwell, 1889-1984. From 1922 reorganised as Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd. 1921 Basil Blackwell acquired Shakespeare Head Press which from 1942 was a subsidiary of Blackwell & Mott. In 1939 formed Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd to publish/distribute scientific books and, from 1950s, journals. 1950s general publishing emerged as, inter alia, leading school textbook publishers but by 1980s refocused on journal publishing especially for societies in social sciences and humanities where it became an international leader. 2001 Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell Science merged to form Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007 acquired by Wiley to become its Wiley Blackwell division, leading international publishers of scholarly journals and also books. Bookselling business continues with c60 branches in ownership of Blackwell family [2023]
Publications:
- Adventurers All. Tales of Blackwellians of books, bookmen and reading and writing folk by Ricketts, Rita
- 'Basil Blackwell, Publisher; B H Blackwell; Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd' in P J Anderson & J Rose (eds), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 106. British literary publishing houses, 1820-1880 by Walker, William T
- Blackwell's, 1879-1979. The history of a family firm by Norrington, A L P
- Getting the Word Out. An aficionado's guide to books and those who love them. Blackwell's 125 years of bookselling, 1879-2004 by Unknown
- Scholars, Poets and Radicals. Discovering forgotten lives in the Blackwell Collections by Ricketts, Rita
- The Way It Was by Saugman, Per
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Blackwell, Benjamin
- Blackwell, Sir Basil
- Blackwell, Basil, & Mott
- Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, South East, England
Sectors:
- Distribution - retailing Books & other publications retailing
- Publishing & printing Newspaper & periodical publishing
- Publishing & printing Other publishing
Notes:
Traced origins as booksellers to 1879 when established by Benjamin H Blackwell, d1924, and traded as B H Blackwell. Emerged as leading academic booksellers. Soon diversified into book publishing, establishing a Publications Dept in 1913, which was later managed by (Sir) Basil Blackwell, 1889-1984. From 1922 reorganised as Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd. 1921 Basil Blackwell acquired Shakespeare Head Press which from 1942 was a subsidiary of Blackwell & Mott. In 1939 formed Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd to publish/distribute scientific books and, from 1950s, journals. 1950s general publishing emerged as, inter alia, leading school textbook publishers but by 1980s refocused on journal publishing especially for societies in social sciences and humanities where it became an international leader. 2001 Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell Science merged to form Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007 acquired by Wiley to become its Wiley Blackwell division, leading international publishers of scholarly journals and also books. Bookselling business continues with c60 branches in ownership of Blackwell family [2023]Publications:
- Adventurers All. Tales of Blackwellians of books, bookmen and reading and writing folk by Ricketts, Rita
- 'Basil Blackwell, Publisher; B H Blackwell; Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd' in P J Anderson & J Rose (eds), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 106. British literary publishing houses, 1820-1880 by Walker, William T
- Blackwell's, 1879-1979. The history of a family firm by Norrington, A L P
- Getting the Word Out. An aficionado's guide to books and those who love them. Blackwell's 125 years of bookselling, 1879-2004 by Unknown
- Scholars, Poets and Radicals. Discovering forgotten lives in the Blackwell Collections by Ricketts, Rita
- The Way It Was by Saugman, Per