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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
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| distribution = [[Macmillan Distribution]] (UK)<br />[[Trafalgar Square Publishing]] (United States)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pan Macmillan {{!}} Independent Publishers Group |access-date=2017-12-27 |url=http://www.ipgbook.com/pan-macmillan-publisher-MCM.php}}</ref>
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'''Sidgwick & Jackson''' is an [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[book]] [[Publisher|publishing company]] [[Pan Macmillan]]. ItFormerly it was an independent publisher; as such it was founded in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] in 1908. NotableIts notable early Sidgwick and Jackson authors include [[poet]] [[Rupert Brooke]] and novelist [[E.M. Forster]]. In more recent times it was responsible forhelped launchinglaunch the careers of [[Lynda La Plante]], [[Shirley Conran]] and [[Judith Krantz]].
 
The Managing Director from 1968 to 1995 was William Armstrong,; the company and Armstrong waswere said to have encouraged individuality and entrepreneurship amongst itsamong staff. Armstrong iswas also the father of the singer [[Dido (singer)|Dido]].<ref name=Independent_obituary>{{cite web |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2160041.ece |title=William Armstrong—Publisher at Sidgwick & Jackson |author=Patrick Janson-Smith |work=Obituaries |date=2007-01-17 |publisher=[[The Independent]] |accessdateaccess-date=2008-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214191642/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2160041.ece |archive-date=2007-12-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishingnews.co.uk/pnarchive/display.asp?K=e2007011113181138&st_01=william+armstrong&pl=10&fields=default&sort=date%2Fd&sf_01=KEYWORD&stem=false&sf_03=type&sf_02=date&m=1&dc=6 |title=A rebel at heart—Margaret Willes remembers William Armstrong |work=PN Archive |publisher=Publishing News |first=Margaret |last=Willes |date=2007-01-12 |accessdateaccess-date=2008-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625044447/http://www.publishingnews.co.uk/pnarchive/display.asp?K=e2007011113181138&st_01=william+armstrong&pl=10&fields=default&sort=date%2Fd&sf_01=KEYWORD&stem=false&sf_03=type&sf_02=date&m=1&dc=6 |archive-date=2009-06-25 }}</ref>
 
Their archives from 1903 to 1966 are held by the [[Bodleian Library]], [[Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archive of Sidgwick and Jackson, Publishers |url=https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/8236 |access-date=1 January 2024 |website=Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts}}</ref>
 
==Subject interests==
*Commercial and popular [[Non-fiction novel|non-fiction]].
*High-profile [[biography]].
*History of popular culture.
*Sidgwick Military list: supported in association with the [[Imperial War Museum]] and [[National Army Museum]].
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090728020507/http://www.panmacmillan.com/Imprintsimprints/SidgwickSIDGWICK%20and20AND%20Jackson20JACKSON/ Sidgwick & Jackson's official web page]
 
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