A history of Taylor & Francis is a history in microcosm of a very important aspect of science - how scientists make known to each other and to the wider public what they are doing and what results they achieve Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate and President of Taylor & Francis until 1997.

Building on two centuries’ experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher. With offices in London, Brighton, Basingstoke and Abingdon in the UK, New York and Philadelphia in the USA and Singapore and Sydney in the Pacific Rim, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 700 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.