Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom). It was established in 1967 and specialised in the social sciences, arts, humanities and professional practice. The publisher had an American office in Burlington, Vermont, and another office in London. It is now a subsidiary of Informa (Taylor & Francis).
The company had several imprints including Gower Publishing which published professional business and management titles; Lund Humphries, originally established in 1939, which published illustrated art books, particularly in the field of modern British art; and Dartmouth. In March 2015, Gower unveiled GpmFirst, a web-based community of practice allowing subscribers access to more than 120 project management titles, as well as discussions and articles relevant to business and project management.
In July 2015, it was announced that Ashgate had been sold to Informa for a reported £20M, and Lund Humphries was relaunched as an independent publisher in December 2015. By February 2016, the independent imprints of Ashgate became part of the Routledge imprint.[citation needed]
Book series
Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Series
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
The Archbishops of Canterbury Series
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700
Ashgate Economic Geography Series
Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Series
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Ashgate Science and Religion Series
Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics
Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
Ashgate Studies in First World War History
Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy
Ashgate Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology
Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts Series
Ashgate World Philosophies Series
Ashgate World Philosophical Series
Avebury Series in Philosophy
British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century