Longmans, Green and Co
of Paternoster Row, London, educational, scientific and technical publisher.
of Clifford Street, London (1947)
1724 Thomas Longman purchased the business of John Taylor, publisher and bookseller.
1869 published 'The History and Progress of the Electric Telegraph, by Robert Sabine, C.E. Second Edition, with additions.[1]
1869 published Smoking Fires, their Cause and Cure, By Rev. Alex Colvin Ainslie, M.A, Vicar of Corfe, Somerset.[2]
1875 published a series of science textbooks, one of them by T. M. Goodeve. [3]
1890 Incorporated as an Unlimited Liability Company.
1914 Directors: Thomas Norton Longman, Charles James Longman, George Henry Longman, Sir Hubert Harry Longman, Bart., and William Ellerby Green.
1926 Re-registered as a private company with limited liability[4]
1947 Converted to a public company; issue of shares to the public.
1963 The restriction on dealing in the privately-held A-stock was lifted[5]
1968 Acquired by S. Pearson Publishers[6]
By 1973 was known as Pearson Longman Ltd
1978 S. Pearson proposed to acquire the rest of Pearson Longman that it did not already own[7]
1985 Acquired The Pitman Examination Institute
By 1986 was Longman Group
1995 Major restructuring of Pearsons' publishing interests broke up the Longmans group[8]