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21 unusual facts about Longman


Caledonian Stadium

The Caledonian Stadium, currently known as the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium situated in the Longman area of Inverness, Scotland.

Complete Works of Shakespeare

Longman - The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Ed. 1-7)

George G. Hall

Longman (1965) & American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc. (1967).

George Longman

Longman's son Henry played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

John Dickinson Stationery

Dickinson patented his ideas in 1809 and in the same year he gained financial backing from George Longman, whose family controlled the Longman publishing firm.

John Penrose

He was Commercial Director of the Academic Books Division at Thomson Publishing in Andover from 1995-6, then Managing Director of Schools Book Publishing at Longman (Pearson PLC), publishing school textbooks for the UK and parts of Africa.

Longman

Longman is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40,000 copies.

In 1799 Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50,000 copies.

In 1814 arrangements were made with Thomas Moore for the publication of Laila Rookh, for which he was paid £3000; and when Archibald Constable failed in 1826, Longmans became the proprietors of the Edinburgh Review.

Longman baronets

The Longman Baronetcy, of Lavershot Hall in the Parish of Windlesham in the County of Surrey, was a title created on 23 July 1909 for Hubert Longman, a partner in Longmans, Green & Co, publishers, and a Justice of the Peace and County Councillor for Surrey.

Longman, Inverness

Caledonian Stadium, home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C., is situated within the shadow of the Kessock Bridge on the shores of the Moray Firth in the north of the area.

Longman's Magazine

Longman's focused on fiction, debuting work by James Payn, Margaret Oliphant, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Edith Nesbit, Frank Anstey, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Walter Besant, and others.

Longman's Magazine was first published in November 1882 by C. J. Longman, publisher of Longmans, Green & Co. of London.

The magazine is closely associated with one of its editors, Andrew Lang, who contributed a column called "At the Sign of the Ship" for many years.

Mark Levesley

Writing credits include the highly successful Exploring Science series of text books for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, Longman Higher Science for GCSE, Longman Foundation Science for GCSE, Longman 21st Century Science and W H Smith Revise Science guides for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.

Najm ad-Din Ayyub

M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, Longman, 1986.

Orin Hargraves

In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Thalaba the Destroyer

When the poem was finally published by the publisher Longman, it suffered from poor sales and only half of the copies were sold by 1804.

The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes was a sports magazine published by Longman between 1895 and 1923, and edited by A. E. T. Watson.

Thomas Longman

Thomas Longman (1699- 18 June 1755) was an English publisher who founded the publishing house of Longman.


Basmo Fortress

The Northern Wars, 1558-1721 by Robert I. Frost; Longman, Harlow, England; 2000 ISBN 0-582-06429-5

Chemical Galaxy

Having just read Fred Hoyle's book The Nature of the Universe, he had the idea that Longman's design resembled a spiral galaxy.

China Radio International

Howkins, John, "Mass Communication in China", New York: Annenberg/ Longman Communication Books, 1982.

Daniel K. Longman

His interest in history was largely inspired by the popular Horrible Histories series created by children's author Terry Deary, who Longman credits as a major inspiration.

Emily Henrietta Hickey

She sold her first poem, "Told in the Twilight" to the Cornhill Magazine in 1866 and afterwards contributed to Longman's Magazine, Good Words, The Athenaeum, the Irish Monthly and many others.

Frederick William Collard

Collard, son of William and Thamosin Collard, was baptised at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, on 21 June 1772, and coming to London at the age of fourteen, obtained a situation in the house of Longman, Lukey, & Broderip, music publishers and pianoforte makers at 26 Cheapside.

George Mealmaker

Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, Volume 23 T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.

Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel

Loades, David (2004): Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court, 1547–1558 Pearson/Longman ISBN 0-582-77226-5

John Van Voorst

Born in Highgate to a family of Dutch descent, he served a six year apprenticeship in Wakefield from the age of 16 before returning to London to work for publishers Longman, Green, Orme, Hurst & Co. until he set up his own business in Paternoster Row in 1833.

L'Arche

Encounter with Mystery: Reflections on L'Arche and Living with Disability, 1997, by Darton, Longman, editor Frances Young

Martyn Rady

While a teacher at Mill Hill School in the 1980s Rady wrote several books for sixth-formers, including Emperor Charles V (Longman, 1987).

Orient Blackswan

In 2006, the Pearson Education group, which holds a minority stake in Orient Longman as well as the rights to the "Longman" brand worldwide, sued Orient Longman asserting its claim on the brand.

Phillip Longman

The son of Kenneth and Mary Longman, who worked in Baden-Württemberg as a result of the postwar occupation of that state (and Bavaria) by the US military, Phillip Longman spent most of his childhood in Princeton, New Jersey.

Richard Jefferies

Illness and resulting lower productivity had impoverished Jefferies; and the editor Charles Longman suggested an application to the Royal Literary Fund.

Sociology of literature

John A. Hall, (1979), The Sociology of Literature, London: Longman.