Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hodder and Stoughton was created in 1868 when Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined the firm after the departure of Jackson and Walford. The company's roots go back further, to the 1840s when Matthew Hodder began working for Messrs Jackson and Walford.
The Famous Five series was born in 1942 through Brockhampton Book Company, a subsidiary set up by Hodder's Ralph Hodder Williams. Manager Ernest Roker persuaded Enid Blyton to write the series, which launched with Five on a Treasure Island.
Hodder and Stoughton published 35 Biggles first editions after Captain W. E. Johns moved from Oxford University Press during the Second World War. Their imprint Brockhampton Press published a further 29 Biggles first editions, with Johns remaining with both publishers until his death in 1968.
Hodder and Stoughton is now an imprint of Hachette, the French publishing group that bought Hodder Headline in 2004. Hachette's acquisition of the Time Warner Book Group made it the UK's lead publisher.
Hodder and Stoughton won the Booker Prize in 1985 with Keri Hulme's The Bone People, originally acquired through the firm's New Zealand office. The Sceptre imprint also published Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark, which had won the Booker Prize in 1982.
Hodder and Stoughton revealed its new logo featuring a stoat in December 2023. The stoat was chosen to reflect the pronunciation of Stoughton's name, connecting the firm's modern identity to its co-founder.