Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd is a British publishing house with its head office in London. The firm had published books for over 100 years. It was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 1987 and became part of the Hodder Education group in 2001.[1] In 2006, Hodder Arnold sold its academic journals to SAGE Publications.[2] In 2009, Hodder Education sold its higher education lists in Media and Communications, History and English Literature, including many Arnold titles, to Bloomsbury Academic.[3] In 2012, Hodder Education sold its medical and higher education lines, including the remainder of Arnold, to Taylor & Francis.[4] Edward Arnold published books and journals for students, academics and professionals.
He set up his own publishing business in London's Covent Garden in January 1890.[6] Trading under his own name and later as Edward Arnold & Co., he specialized in educational books, exploration, mountaineering, Egyptology, and medical and scientific texts.[5] He published most of E. M. Forster's major works.
^Bryan Bennett, ‘Arnold, Edward Augustus (1857–1942)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 19 Jan 2014
Bryan Bennett and Anthony Hamilton, Edward Arnold: 100 Years of Publishing, London: Edward Arnold [Hodder & Stoughton], 1990. ISBN0 340 54109 1. Illustrated with black and white plates and recounts the publishing company of Edward Arnold & Co. in the years 1890–1990.
