Started in business:1868
Hodder & Stoughton was founded in 1868, built on publishing the biggest quality commercial books of each era, and promoting them adventurously. Publishing in the early years included Winston Churchill, GK Chesterton and The Bible, then the 1920s brought an explosion of commercial fiction at keen prices – Hodder’s 'Yellow jackets' series were the pre-cursors to the first paperbacks, and included bestsellers from John Buchan, Sapper and Edgar Wallace.