Lutterworth Press

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The Lutterworth Press is one of the oldest independent British publishing houses. It has been trading since the late eighteenth century initially as the Religious Tract Society (RTS). The Lutterworth imprint, named after the small English town of which John Wyclif was Rector in the fourteenth century, has been used since 1932, and Lutterworth continued most of the then current RTS publications. The main areas have been religion, children's books and general adult non-fiction.

The religious list, as with the RTS, writers tended to be fairly evangelical, e.g. Norman Grubb, but gradually broadened in the second half of the twentieth century.

Well-known general writers first published by Lutterworth include David Attenborough and Patrick Moore. The list specialises in popular history and art history, but also publishes books on a wide range of other subjects.

The children's list, which built on the strength of the Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, has included well-known authors such as Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Its history has been chronicled in From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the WAAF: The R.T.S., Lutterworth Press and Children's Literature, edited by Dennis Butts and Pat Garrett, 2006 [1].

The Press has been based based in Cambridge, England since 1984.