Melbourne University Press

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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsPublishersHistoryDissatisfied with arrangements with booksellers for the supply of books for staff and student use, the University Press was established in 1921, commencing operations in 1922. It supplied textbooks (including second-hand), note-books, stationery and apparatus. It soon served as a circulation library for post-graduate students in Education and included a Post and Telegraph Office among its facilities. In 1923 it published its first book, Myra Willard's History of the White Australia Policy, with others ready to appear. At first the Press was directed by Stanley Addison, Assistant Registrar, with the Librarian, Leigh Scott, as Secretary. Towards the end of 1931 the Press's objects, constitution and methods of control were incorporated in a University statute, and in 1932 Frank Wilmot ("Furnley Maurice") was appointed Manager under a Board of Management. After Wilmot's death in 1940 management passed to Gwyn James. With James, MUP was to abandon its fringe activities to concentrate on "the policy of making the press a first rate publishing house in the learned and literary fields". The Press was privatised in 2002 and renamed Melbourne University Publishing.

Series

[UMA-SR-000001952] Melbourne University Press Publications

[UMA-SR-000000940] Melbourne University Press/ Melbourne University Publishing

[UMA-SRE-20030134] Melbourne University Press Book Review Press Cutting Books

[UMA-SRE-20030130] Melbourne University Press Author Portraits

[UMA-SRE-20030129] Melbourne University Press Editorial Files: Out of Print Authors

[UMA-SRE-20150020] Client Files of Melbourne University Press

[UMA-SRE-20030118] Minutes of the Melbourne University Press MUP Board and sub-committees

Accession

[2003.0132] Records of the Melbourne University Press

[1993.0152] Records of the Melbourne University Press

[1993.0124] Records of the Melbourne University Press

[1975.0135] Records of the Melbourne University Press

Image

Gwyn James

Studio portrait of Gwyn James

Item

The University Of Melbourne Centenary Celebrations book

People and Organisations

Board Of Management, Melbourne University Press

Dates

Date1921-2002

University of Melbourne Archives

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