SIR BASIL BLACKWELL
Name: Basil Blackwell
Born: 1889
Died: 1984
Sir Basil Blackwell (1889-1984) was born Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He
was the son of the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to
become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad
Street in central Oxford. In 1921, he founded his own publishing group, the
Shakesphere Head Press, with Bernard Newdigate as typographer. This he
integrated into the family book business when he became chairman in 1924.
Blackwell was a prosecution witness in the 1966 private prosecution attempt to
bar the book Last Exit to Brooklyn from UK publication.
Name: Basil Blackwell
Born: 1889
Died: 1984
Sir Basil Blackwell (1889-1984) was born Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He
was the son of the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to
become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad
Street in central Oxford. In 1921, he founded his own publishing group, the
Shakesphere Head Press, with Bernard Newdigate as typographer. This he
integrated into the family book business when he became chairman in 1924.
Blackwell was a prosecution witness in the 1966 private prosecution attempt to
bar the book Last Exit to Brooklyn from UK publication.