Editing Cambridge University Press (section)

== History ==
[[File: Cambridge University Press building.jpg|thumb|Cambridge University Press head office in [[Cambridge]]]]
[[File:Cambridge University Press building2.jpg|thumb|Cambridge University Press building in Cambridge]]
Cambridge University Press was the oldest university press in the world. It originated from [[letters patent]] granted to the [[University of Cambridge]] by [[Henry VIII]] in 1534. Cambridge was one of the two [[privileged presses]] (the other being [[Oxford University Press]]). Authors published by Cambridge have included [[John Milton]], [[William Harvey]], [[Isaac Newton]], [[Bertrand Russell]], and [[Stephen Hawking]].<ref name=":2">{{cite book
  | title = Cambridge University Press, 1584–1984
  | first= Michael
  | last  =Black
  | year = 2000
  | isbn = 978-0-521-66497-4
  | publisher = Cambridge University Press }}</ref>

University printing began in Cambridge when the first practising University Printer, Thomas Thomas, set up a printing house in 1584.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=A Brief History of the Press |url=http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/brief-history-press |access-date=3 August 2018 |website=Cambridge University Press |language=en}}</ref> The first publication was a book, ''Two Treatises of the Lord His Holie Supper''.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Our Story – Timeline |url=https://www.cambridge.org/our-story/timeline |access-date=28 February 2022 |website=Cambridge University Press & Assessment |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":9" /> In 1591, the first Cambridge Bible was printed by John Legate and in 1629, Cambridge folio edition of the [[King James Bible]] was printed by Thomas and John Buck.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />

In July 1697, the [[Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset|Duke of Somerset]] made a loan of £200 to the university "towards the printing house and press" and [[James Halman]], [[Registrary]] of the university, lent £100 for the same purpose.<ref>''The Cambridge University Press 1696—1712'' (Cambridge University Press, 1966), p. 78</ref>

A new home for the press, The Pitt Building, on [[Trumpington Street]] in the centre of Cambridge was completed in 1833, which was designed by [[Edward Blore]]. It became a [[listed building]] in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge University Press (Pitt Press) University Press, Non Civil Parish – 1126282 |work=Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1126282 |access-date=28 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

In the early 1800s, the press pioneers the development of [[Stereotype (printing)|stereotype printing]], allowing successive printings from one setting.<ref name=":7">{{cite book |last=Black |first=Michael |title=Cambridge University Press, 1583–1984 |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-521-66497-4 |pages=328–29|publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref><ref name=":8" /> The press began using steam-powered machine presses by the 1850s. It was in this period that the press turned down what later became the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] – a proposal for which was brought to Cambridge by [[James Murray (lexicographer)|James Murray]] before he turned to Oxford.<ref name=":2" />

The press journals publishing programme began in 1893 with the ''[[Journal of Physiology]]'' and then the ''Journal of Hygiene and Biometrika''. By 1910 the press had become a well-established journal publisher with a successful list which includes its first humanities title, ''[[Modern Language Review]]''. 1956 saw the first issue of the ''[[Journal of Fluid Mechanics]]''.

The press has published 170+ [[Nobel Prize winners]], the first in 1895.

In 1913, the [[Monotype]] system of hot-metal mechanised typesetting was introduced at the press.

In 1949, the press opened its first international branch in New York.<ref name=":1" />

The press moved to its current site in Cambridge in 1963. The [[mid-century modern]] building, University Printing House, was constructed in 1961–1963. The building was designed by Beard, Bennett, Wilkins and Partners.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |title=Cambridge University Press |website=Capturing Cambridge |url=https://capturingcambridge.org/newtown/shaftesbury-road/cambridge-university-press/ |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref>

In 1975, the press launched its English language teaching publishing business.<ref name=":11">{{cite web |title = Timeline |publisher = Cambridge University Press |url = https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/timeline |access-date = 26 July 2019}}</ref>

In 1981, the press moved to a new site on Shaftsbury Road. The Edinburgh Building was purpose-built with an adjoining warehouse to accommodate the press's expansion. It was built in 1979–80 by International Design and Construction.<ref name=":10" /> The site was demolished in 2017 to make way for the construction of [[Cambridge Assessment]]'s Triangle Building.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/news/video/view/building-the-triangle/|title=Building the Triangle|website=Cambridge Assessment Network and Research|date=16 June 2017}}</ref>

In 1989, the press acquired the long-established Bible and prayer-book publisher [[Eyre & Spottiswoode]], which gave the press the ancient and unique title of The Queen's Printer.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|last1=Black|first1=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gB4SzjmLvAC&q=cambridge+university+press+kevin+taylor&pg=PA58|title=A Short History of Cambridge University Press|last2=Black|first2=Michael H.|date=28 March 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77572-4|language=en}}</ref>

In 1992, the press opened a bookshop at 1 [[Trinity Street, Cambridge]], which was the oldest-known bookshop site in Britain as books have been sold there since 1581.<ref>{{cite web |title       = History of the Bookshop |publisher = Cambridge University Press Bookshop |year = 2009 |url = http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/visit-bookshop/history-bookshop/ |access-date = 16 January 2018}}</ref> In 2008 the shop expanded into 27 Market Hill where its specialist Education and English Language Teaching shop opened the following year.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} The press bookshop sells Press books as well as Cambridge souvenirs such as mugs, diaries, bags, postcards, maps.<ref>{{cite web |title = Our Bookshop |url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/about-us/visit-bookshop |access-date=30 June 2020 |website=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>

In 1993, the Cass Centre was opened to provide sports and social facilities for employees and their families.<ref name=":10" />

In 1999, Cambridge Dictionaries Online was launched.<ref name=":11" />

In 2012, the press sold its printing operation to MPG Books Group<ref>{{cite web |title= Cambridge University Press ends printing after 400 years |website=The Bookseller |url = https://www.thebookseller.com/news/cambridge-university-press-ends-printing-after-400-years#:~:text=with%20MPG...-,More%20than%20400%20years%20of%20printing%20under%20the%20Cambridge%20University,take%20over%20printing%20for%20CUP. |access-date=30 June 2020 }}</ref> and now uses third parties around the world to provide its print publications.

In 2019, the press released a new concept in scholarly publishing through Cambridge Elements where authors whose works are either too short to be printed as a book or too long to qualify as a journal article could have these published within 12 weeks.<ref>{{citation |title=Annual Report for the year ended 30 April 2016 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/files/2914/6979/5859/CUP-Annual-Report-2016.pdf |access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref>

In 2021, Cambridge University Press merged with [[Cambridge Assessment]]. The new organisation was called [[Cambridge University Press & Assessment]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=20 October 2020|title=Cambridge University Press to join with Cambridge Assessment|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-university-press-to-join-with-cambridge-assessment|access-date=25 February 2022|website=University of Cambridge|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shepard|first=Gabriel|date=5 August 2021|title=Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment merge|url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/university-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-21236845|access-date=25 February 2022|website=CambridgeshireLive|language=en}}</ref>

In 2022, [[Amira Bennison]] was elected chair of the Cambridge University Press academic committee, replacing Kenneth Armstrong.<ref name=Comerford>{{cite web |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bennison-made-chair-of-cups-academic-committee |title=Bennison made chair of CUP's academic committee |work=[[The Bookseller]] |first=Ruth |last=Comerford |date=16 November 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Named Printers at Cambridge University Press<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of University Printers |url=https://www.cambridge.org/us/bibles/about/printers,%20https://www.cambridge.org/us/bibles/about/printers |access-date=10 February 2024 |website=Cambridge University Press |language=en}}</ref>
! Name !! From || To
|- 
| Thomas Thomas || 1583 || 1588
|- 
| [[John Legate]]
||1588
||before 1593
|- 
| John Porter
||before 1593
||1606
|- 
| Cantrell Legge
||1606
||before 1608
|- 
| Thomas Brooke
||before 1608
||1622
|- 
| Thomas Buck
||1625
||?
|- 
| John Buck
||?
||1630
|- 
| Francis Buck
||1630
||1632
|- 
| Roger Daniel
||1632
||1650
|- 
| John Legate
||1650
||1655
|- 
| John Field
||1655
||1669
|- 
| Matthew Whinn
||1669
|| 
|- 
|  John Hayes
||1669
||1680
|- 
| John Peck
||1680
||1682
|- 
| Hugh Martin
||1682
||1683
|- 
| James Jackson
||1683
||1686
|- 
| H Jenkes
||1693
||1697
|- 
| Jonathan Pindar
||1697
||1705
|- 
| Cornelius Crownfield
||1705
||1730
|- 
| Mary Fenner, Thomas & John James
||1734
||1740
|- 
| Joseph Bentham
||1740
||1758
|- 
| [[John Baskerville]]
||1758
||1766
|- 
| John Archdeacon
||1766
||1793
|- 
| John Burges
||1793
||1802
|- 
| John Deighton
||1802
||1804
|- 
| Andrew Wilson
||1804
||1809
|- 
| John Smith
||1809
||1836
|- 
| John William Parker
||1836
||1854
|- 
| George Seeley
||1854
|| 
|- 
|  Charles John Clay
||1854
||1882
|- 
| John Clay
||1882
||1886
|- 
| Charles Felix Clay
||1886
||1916
|- 
| James Bennet Peace
||1916
||1923
|- 
| Walter Lewis
||1923
||1945
|- 
| Brooke Crutchley
||1945
||1974
|- 
| Euan Phillips
||1974
||1976
|- 
| Harris Myers
||1976
||1982
|- 
| Geoffrey Cass
||1982
||1983
|- 
| Philip Allin
||1983
||1991
|- 
| [[Geoffrey Cass]]
||1991
||1992
|- 
| Anthony K Wilson
||1992
||1999
|- 
| Jeremy Mynott
||1999
||2002
|- 
| Stephen Bourne
||2002
||2012
|- 
| [[Peter Phillips (businessman)|Peter Phillips]]
||2011
|}