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Frank Cass (the 11th of July 1930 - the 9th of August 2007) was a British publisher and the founder of Frank Cass and Co., an academic publishing house specialising in history and the social sciences. He began as a bookseller in Bloomsbury before founding his own imprint in 1957. Taylor and Francis acquired most of his journals in 2003 for 15 million pounds.
Frank Cass published a range of academic journals including Middle Eastern Studies (founded 1964), Business History, The Journal of Peasant Studies, West European Politics, Slavery and Abolition, Immigrants and Minorities, Intelligence and National Security, Jewish Culture and History, and Holocaust Studies.
Frank Cass sold most of his journals to Taylor and Francis in 2003 for 15 million pounds. He retained two titles, Jewish Culture and History and Holocaust Studies, and that same year founded Vallentine Mitchell Academic as a continuing imprint.
Frank Cass purchased the Irish Academic Press in 1974. The acquisition included the 1,000 volumes of British Parliamentary Papers covering 1801 to 1901, a major primary source collection. Cass made much of his personal wealth through this purchase.
Frank Cass purchased the scripts of The Goon Show in 1972. The source does not give an explicit reason, but the acquisition fits his pattern of acquiring overlooked or unclaimed material, from out-of-copyright history books to the Jewish imprint Vallentine Mitchell.
Frank Cass was born on the 11th of July 1930 in London. His father was a cabinetmaker and his mother was of Polish descent. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He was educated at Hackney Downs School and the Regent Street Polytechnic.