Iain Stevenson (1950/1951-died March 2017) was

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of publishing at

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. He founded the environmental publishers, Belhaven Press.

Career

Stevenson's first career was in commercial publishing where he worked for Longman, Macmillan, Wiley, and the Stationery Office. He later moved into academia and in 1981 obtained his PhD from the University of London for a thesis titled "Viticulture and society in the Herault (France) during the Phylloxera Crisis, 1862-1907". He was professor of publishing studies at City University, London and later professor and emeritus professor of publishing at University College London. He founded the environmental publishers

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. In 2010, the British Library published his history of British publishing, ''Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century''.

Death

In March 2017, Stevenson was hit by a car in

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, Hertfordshire, while walking down the street. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries, aged reportedly 66.Bishop's Stortford man who died in fatal crash near Aldi is named.
Sam Meadows, ''Hertfordshire Mercury'', 13 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2018.

Selected publications

* ''Canadian Election Postal Stationery''. Postal Stationery Society, Sutton Veny, 2003. * ''Book Makers: British Publishing in the Twentieth Century''. British Library Publishing, London, 2010.

References

External links

*https://www.researchgate.net/profile/I_Stevenson *http://ucl.academia.edu/IainStevenson *https://publishing.brookes.ac.uk/podcasts/P16/ 2017 deaths Publishers (people) from London Academics of University College London Alumni of the University of London Academics of City, University of London Road incident deaths in England Year of birth uncertain {{UK-bio-stub