Research Codice — The Makers
Cambridge University Press
- Founded
- 1534
- Seat
- Cambridge · United Kingdom
- Status
- extant
- Sub-discipline
- printers_publishers
Letters patent from Henry VIII in 1534 gave the University of Cambridge the right to print, and it has published without interruption since 1584 — the oldest university press in the world. Its endurance mechanism is the charter: a right granted once, exercised continuously, and never allowed to lapse.
Sources
- publicationBlack, M. H., Cambridge University Press 1584–1984Primary source
- webCambridge University Press & Assessment, our historycambridge.org