The Lutterworth Press, one of the oldest independent British publishing houses, has traded since the late eighteenth century, initially as the Religious Tract Society (RTS).
The religious list, as with the RTS, tended to publish fairly evangelical writers, such as Norman Grubb,[2] but gradually broadened in the second half of the twentieth century.
Well-known general writers first published by Lutterworth include David Attenborough[3] and Patrick Moore.
In an period where "most long-established publishers have been absorbed into faceless multinational groups", Lutterworth has maintained its "editorial existence".
[1] The book 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,[6] chronicles the history of the publishing house.