When was macmillan founded

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Related Posts. They made a mark on the literary world, publishing an extraordinary range of works by extraordinary authors: Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling to name but a few. They launched the scientific research journal Nature, followed by the Palgrave imprint, promoting education and academic scholarship around the world.

Both continue to be at the forefront of ground-breaking research in their fields and are key parts of Macmillan even today. When former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan became Chairman in the middle of the twentieth century, he decided education should be a key investment area for the organisation.