Short answers, pulled from the story.
Games Workshop was founded in 1975 by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson at 15 Bolingbroke Road, London. It originally manufactured wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris, and Go before pivoting to role-playing games and miniature wargames.
Games Workshop is headquartered in Lenton, Nottingham, England. All UK-based operations were relocated there in October 1997.
Games Workshop's best-known products are Warhammer Fantasy Battle, first released in 1983, and Warhammer 40,000, released in 1987. Both are miniature wargames built around the company's own range of collectible painted figures.
Games Workshop became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index on the 20th of December 2024. The company has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since October 1994, when it was floated following a private equity-backed management buyout.
White Dwarf is a magazine Games Workshop has published since June 1977, with over 500 issues. It grew out of an earlier newsletter called Owl and Weasel, which Games Workshop launched in February 1975 to promote postal games and connect players.
The lead belt is a concentration of wargames companies in the East Midlands region of England, centred on Nottingham. The cluster formed because of Games Workshop's long presence in the area, with many companies in it founded by former Games Workshop employees.