About Halbrook

A small independent educational publisher, founded in 1994 by two serving teachers who could not find a workbook they were willing to put in front of a class.

A short history

• 1994
  Halbrook Educational Publishing Ltd is registered by Marguerite Vane and Douglas Hale. The first four years are spent on contract work for other publishers.
• 1998
  SCIENCE: Learn and Explore is published, the first volume of the series and the first book to carry the Halbrook imprint. Forty thousand copies.
• 1999
  READING follows. The Problem of the Month begins in the newsletter.
• 2000–2001
  GEOGRAPHY and HISTORY. The company moves to Mereway Road and takes on staff.
• 2002
  LOGIC & PUZZLES, the first title by E. R. Sable, whose typescript arrived unsolicited and complete.
• 2003
  MATH: Learn and Explore. Twelve thousand copies, and the only volume still reprinted.
• 2006
  ART & DESIGN, the eighth and last commissioned title. Six thousand copies.
• 2011
  The website is rebuilt. No new titles are commissioned after this date.

Our records

Company papers covering 2004 and 2005 are incomplete. Part of the ledger was lost when the ground floor at Mereway Road flooded in the winter of 2005, and part was removed before that. What survives is held in the office and is not available to the public.

We are asked, from time to time, why the series jumps from Volume 6 to Volume 8. The answer is that it does not.