Our email, phone and fax lines will be offline, from Thursday 27 November until Monday 1 December, while we move into our new UK office building. If you have sent us an email it will be held in a queue until our systems come back online on Monday 1 December, so please bear with us if there is a delay in responding to any message you have sent. Our main switchboard number will not be changing and you will be able to phone us on +44 (0)1252 331551 from mid-morning on Monday 1 December. We are sorry that we are unable to receive your messages and calls while the move takes place.

Ashgate is a leading independent press dedicated to publishing the finest academic research

Each year Ashgate publishes more than 700 new books across fifteen subject areas in the Social Sciences and Humanities, representing the best academic research from around the world.

Gower and Lund Humphries are part of the Ashgate Publishing Group

One of the most trusted brands in business and management publishing for over forty years, Gower continues to provide business practitioners and researchers worldwide with the highest quality work in their field. Lund Humphries has a long-established reputation as a leading publisher of highly illustrated artist monographs, reference books and surveys for specialists and enthusiasts.

Specialist publishers of research and scholarship

We understand the value of academic research and scholarship. Our business is driven not by text books or journals but by a programme of cutting-edge research publications and specialist reference books. All books published within the Ashgate program are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field.

Ashgate Publishing Group is international

With offices in the UK, North America and Australasia, we are able to market and distribute our books worldwide and to support an international cast of authors. Together with our overseas agents and representatives and with Bookpoint Ltd in the UK, Ashgate provides a high level of customer service and prompt order fulfillment around the globe.

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We specialise in marketing books directly to our customers, via catalogues, direct mail, email promotions and targeted sales approaches, which are tailored to meet the different needs of our customers in different parts of the world.

Working with our Authors

Every book on our list receives the individual attention of commissioning, editorial, production and marketing staff.

'I can honestly say that Ashgate is – by far – the most efficient and helpful publisher with which I have ever worked.'
Professor Michael Brennan, University of Leeds, UK