[2] The company found success publishing authors such as Bertrand Russell, Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and Mahatma Gandhi.

[2] In the 1930s, Unwin published two bestsellers by Lancelot Hogben: Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen.

Once the book became a success, Unwin asked Tolkien for a sequel, which eventually became the bestselling The Lord of the Rings.

[2] Stanley Unwin was born on 19 December 1884 at 13 Handen Road, Lee, Lewisham, south-east London.

[5] Unwin was a lifelong pacifist, and during the First World War, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD).