Holywell Press

Holywell Press Ltd is a family printing and publishing company based in Oxford, England.[1]

The firm was established in 1890 by Harry Burrows and Jack Doe.[2] A major customer has been the University of Oxford, including publication of the university student magazine Isis for many years. It also produced early advertising for Morris cars. Harry Burrows was a personal friend of the founder William Morris (later Lord Nuffield).

The company took its name from the Holywell Room in Oxford. Initially the company premises were in the Chapel of St Mary in Catte Street. In 1920/1, it moved to the Maclaren Gymnasium in Alfred Street, with much more room for printing. In 1989, it moved to a purpose-built factory building in Ferry Hinksey Road, at Osney Mead in west Oxford.[3] The company has been run by the Burrows family throughout its existence, currently (as of 2014) by Benjamin Burrows.[2]

Selected books
  • Geoffrey Bolton, History of the O.U.C.C., 1962.
  • Andrew S. N. Wright, The History of Buckland in the County of Berkshire, 1966.
  • Humphry J. M. Bowen, The Flora of Berkshire, 1968.
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gollark: The issues I think are most problematic are just companies being able to influence governance, and I'm not really sure what to do about that. Perhaps just have strong norms about having the government not do much.
gollark: You'd need a way to somehow be able to have some of the profit from new fundamental stuff go back to its original investors.
gollark: Probably some kind of long-term research investment things?
gollark: I think with better coordinating/financial structures in place we could probably have better encouragement to do fundamental stuff.

References
  1. Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Holywell Press". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 188–189. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
  2. "The Family Story". UK: Holywell Press. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  3. "Holywell Press Ltd". UK: Thomson Local. Retrieved 23 April 2014.


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