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4 unusual facts about Allen & Unwin


Obadiah Walker

S. Fletcher, "Obadiah Walker," Yorkshiremen of the Restoration, London: Allen & Unwin, 1921, pp. 237–253.

Paolo Caccia Dominioni

His book on the Italian Campaign in North Africa, Alamein 1933-1962, was translated into English and published by Allen & Unwin in 1986 as Alamein 1933-1962: An Italian Story.

The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by Allen & Unwin.

The Road to Middle-earth

In Great Britain it was first published by Allen & Unwin in 1982, with a second edition published in 1993 by Harper Collins and a revised and expanded third edition published in 2003.


Alfonso de Angoitia

Alfonso de Angoitia is a regular annual attendee of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference media summit in Idaho, an annual conference hosted by private investment firm Allen & Company which typically features business, political, philanthropic and cultural heavyweights.

Edsurge

The company’s initial funding was led by The Washington Post Company and NewSchools Venture Fund, along with angel investors including Allen & Company’s Nancy Peretsman and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Judith Estrin.

Frederick I. Pitman

Cambridge lost the Boat Race in 1885 and in the same year Pitman challenged in the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls but was beaten in both by the holder W. S. Unwin.

GroupSpaces

Since 2007, GroupSpaces has worked with over 70 graduate recruiters including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Freshfields, BCG, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Citi, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, Lloyd's of London and the NHS.

James Vincent Murphy

(transl.) Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, (biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford)

Obel Tower

In April 2011 it was announced that London law firm Allen & Overy was to rent all of the available office space at the Obel.

Old South Church

Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens 1935–1937.

Pauline Baynes

In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him.

Robert Michels

Translated as Sexual Ethics: A Study of Borderland Questions (Walter Scott, George Allen & Unwin, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914); republished with a new introduction by Terry R. Kandal (Transaction Publishers, 2001-2, ISBN 0-7658-0743-2)

Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Stephen D. Unwin

Formerly the technical attaché to the United States Department of Energy for the British government, he is president of his own consulting firm, specializing in risk management for various Fortune 100 clients.

The Climate Corporation

On February 28, 2011, The Climate Corporation announced a $42 million Series B funding with new investors Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures joining New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, Allen & Company, First Round Capital, Atomico, and Code Advisors in the financing round.

University of Birmingham Financial Forum

Stephen Denyer, Global Markets Partner, Allen & Overy - "Europe's Future Place in the World: A Perspective from a London Based Global Professional Services Firm".


see also

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster

Europa und die deutsche Frage : eine Deutung und ein Ausblick. Vita-Nova-Verlag, Luzern 1937, published by Plon in 1937 in Paris as L' Europe et la question allemande with a foreword from André Chaumeix; and in 1940-41 in New York and London as Europe and the German Question. from Sheed & Ward and Allen & Unwin respectively.

R. E. Foster

H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1926

The Iremonger Award

He started the independent publishing company, Hale and Iremonger, in 1977, with Greens MP, Sylvia Hale, but left the partnership in 1980 to join Allen & Unwin when its publishing director Patrick Gallagher offered him a job.