Huxley Scientific Press

“This quirky Oxford-based indie publisher.” — Oxford Today

Huxley Scientific Press is a small independent publisher, based in Oxford, which grew out of the success of a self-published booklet, The Oxford Science Walk, by Sophie Huxley. The booklet describes a walking tour of Oxford that focuses on the city’s scientific past and has achieved significant sales through local bookshops and museums, as well as through scientific conferences held in the city. Encouraged by this success, we embarked on further publications and currently have twelve titles on our list:

An Oxford Bestiary, by Sophie Huxley
Shelley at Oxford, by Heathcote Williams
Figuring It Out: Children’s Arithmetical Manuscripts 1680–1880, by John Denniss
Oxford’s Working Past: Walking Tours of Victorian and Edwardian Industrial Buildings,
by Liz Woolley
Transiting the Sun: Venus and the Key to the Size of the Cosmos, by John Woodruff
Forbidden Fruit, by Heathcote Williams
Aristotle, the Market Place, and the Idea of a University, by G. L. Huxley
Eric Gill in Oxford, by Sophie Huxley
Penicillin and Luck, by Norman Heatley
Darwin’s Mysterious Illness, by Robert Youngson
Oxford Trees, by Sophie Huxley
The Oxford Science Walk, by Sophie Huxley

Our intention is to produce attractive and well-edited books on unusual scientific themes that will be both entertaining and instructive. At the same time, we hope to restore the traditional standards of editing and typographical design so lamentably lacking in the major Oxford publishing houses of today.