Company Timeline
1897 - 1897 B H Blackwell Booksellers publishes its first book, Mensae Secundae: Verses written in Balliol by H.C. Beeching.
1922 - Basil Blackwell & Mott establish a separate publishing house.
1924 - Iowa State Press (known as Collegiate Press then) begins producing student and departmental periodicals for Iowa State College.
1926 - Blackwell & Mott attracts many young authors including WH Auden, Graham Greene, and JRR Tolkien.
1939 - Sir Basil Blackwell founds Blackwell Scientific Publications (BSP), a medical publisher in Oxford, United Kingdom.
1953 - Basil Blackwell agrees to publish entire unpublished legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the 20th centuries most influential philosophers.
1956 - Basil Blackwell is knighted for services to bookselling and publishing. The first knighthood to be bestowed on a bookseller.
1963 - BSP, B H Blackwell, and Blackwell & Mott acquire Munksgaard (founded in 1917 in Copenhagen, Denmark).
1966 - Edinburgh, Scotland office of BSP opens.
1971 - Blackwell Scientific Publications Pty Ltd is incorporated in Melbourne, Australia.
1982 - BSP opens first North American office in Boston, Massachusetts.
1984 - Basil Blackwell opens first North American office in New York City.
1987 - BSP moves its offices to Cambridge, Massachusetts under Managing Director, Robert Campbell.
1988 - BSP opens office in Berlin, Germany.
1989 - Under Managing Director, René Olivieri, Basil Blackwell Inc. moves its offices from NYC to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1991 - Basil Blackwell Inc. changes its name to Blackwell Publishers.
1993 - Blackwell Scientific Publications Asia signs first agreement with Japanese learned society. BSP changes name to Blackwell Science.
1999 - Blackwell Science purchases Iowa State Press.Blackwell Synergy, an online service offering full text with linking was launched. Avenue, a medical communications company, is formed with merger of Bullet and Blackwell Healthcare Communications Ltd.
2001 - Blackwell Publishing Ltd was founded in July 2001 by merging Blackwell Publishers and Blackwell Science making it the largest, independent society publisher. René Olivieri was named CEO and Robert Campbell, President of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Blackwell Scientific Publications Asia becomes Blackwell Publishing Asia with Mark Robertson appointed as President. Gordon Tibbitts became President of Blackwell Publishing, Inc, the company's U.S. operation.
2001 Blackwell becomes founding member of the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI).
2002 - Blackwell Publishing purchases Futura Publishing Company and adds 42 journals to its list including The Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology (JCE), and Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE).
2004 - Blackwell Publishing expanded Asia operations with the opening of a representative office in Shanghai, China in August 2004.
2005 - Asian operations were further expanded by the opening of a services facility in Singapore responsible for journal printing, distribution and customer services.
