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Founded | 2007 |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
Distribution | Macmillan Distribution (UK) Peribo (Australia)[1] Independent Publishers Group (US)[2] |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | thehistorypress |
The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history. It claims to be the United Kingdom's largest independent publisher in this field,[3] publishing approximately 300 books per year and with a backlist of over 12,000 titles.[4]
Created in December 2007, The History Press integrated core elements of the NPI Media Group within it, including all existing published titles, plus all the future contracts and publishing rights contained in them. At the time of founding, the imprints included Phillimore, Pitkin Publishing, Spellmount, Stadia, Sutton Publishing, Tempus Publishing and Nonsuch.