{"id":83,"date":"2021-06-18T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:35:41","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT WHP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publishers of scholarly books and journals on environment, history and society<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"White Horse Press: Introduction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/46B9n9uMQ5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup><sub>This video was made with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishingscotland.org\">Publishing Scotland<\/a> Go Digital Fund.<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Team<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The White Horse Press LLP is an independent family business, founded in 1991 and run by Sarah Johnson, her parents Andrew and Alison, and James Rice, Alison\u2019s nephew and Sarah\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sarah<\/strong>, who read English at Oxford and whose Ph.D. from Cambridge dealt with Nature, Culture and Landscape in Pacific Travel Accounts, now lives in Cambridgeshire and is perennially renovating The Old Vicarage that is now The White Horse Press\u2019s head office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Alison and Andrew<\/strong> met in Oxford, but have spent nearly 50 years living mostly on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides, where they now run a croft and manage some offshore islands as nature reserves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>James<\/strong> worked for many years in cultural film exhibition, after reading Biology and Ancient Greek at Swarthmore and Oxford. He now lives in Edinburgh, where he splits his time between the White Horse Press and consultancy for independent cinemas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We publish the respected hybrid (subscription and paid Open Access) journal&nbsp;<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/EH.html\">Environment and History<\/a><\/strong><\/em>; the four Subscribe to Open journals&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/GE.html\">Global Environment<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/NP.html\">Nomadic Peoples<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/WW.html\">Worldwide Waste<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/PP.html\"><strong><em>Plant Perspectives<\/em><\/strong><\/a>; and the Diamond Open Access journal,&nbsp;<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/JPS.html\">The Journal of Population and Sustainability<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/whpress.co.uk\/EV.html\">Environmental Values<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is now published for us by <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/enva\">Sage<\/a> but we maintain a close editorial interest.&nbsp;We have an expanding booklist of monographs and edited collections that mesh with the themes of our journals, and those tangential to them: cultural history with an environmental flavour, conservation history, the history of environmental ideas\u2026. Almost all our front list books are now Open Access. Over the years, our books and journals have been recognised with prizes and field-leading Impact Factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ethos<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We are small independent publishers who aspire to standards of academic quality as high as those of the best international scholarly publishers, and to a friendliness and personal touch that far exceeds them. Both in journal and book publishing, we offer intelligent, flexible and individual treatment from editors with academic backgrounds and writing experience. Our small size gives us agility to navigate the changing publishing landscape, and freedom to define our own publication agenda. We have thirty years\u2019 experience of managing and adapting to the systems and standards required in scholarly publishing. Our information page &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/publishing-with-whp\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"823\">For authors<\/a>&#8216; gives more detail on our ethical standards, and what we expect from authors, editors and referees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Access<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We are now working hard to move towards a fully Open Access business model. Opening access to all our publications, as well as being the right thing to do, will boost the profile of our publications and help our authors to be read and cited more widely. We are proud to be members of OASPA and the Open Book Collective. For an overview of the outlook for open access book publishing at WHP, and the impact OBC are making, please read our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/whpress.co.uk\/Documents\/OBCreport_2025-03-28.pdf\">annual reports (PDF, 1 MB)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaspa.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/OASPA_logo.png\" alt=\"Member of OASPA\" width=\"121\" height=\"75\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-1024x306.png\" alt=\"Logo for the Open Book Collective.\" class=\"wp-image-5885\" style=\"width:241px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-1024x306.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-133x40.png 133w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-1536x459.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-2048x613.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/OBC_LOGO_Horizontal_2_colour-600x179.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Logo<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6689 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-133x134.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-1526x1536.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-300x302.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-600x604.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/horse.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The horse on our logo has a classical pedigree, being derived from a 5th century B.C. marble fragment from the Acropolis in Athens.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Animals<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"185\" data-id=\"2605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oscar-3-133x185.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a cat sprawling on a n outdoor dining table.\" class=\"wp-image-2605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oscar-3-133x185.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oscar-3-300x417.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oscar-3-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Oscar-3.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oscar enjoys life at the Old Vicarage. He spends most of his time sleeping, and is definitely NOT FAT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"193\" data-id=\"2604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NellieFrisbee-2-133x193.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a border collie holding an Aerobie flying ring in its mouth.\" class=\"wp-image-2604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NellieFrisbee-2-133x193.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NellieFrisbee-2-300x434.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NellieFrisbee-2-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/NellieFrisbee-2.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nellie the collie was born in the Hebrides and now divides her time between Harris and East Lothian. She specialises in Frisbee games and playing volleyball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"133\" height=\"188\" data-id=\"2603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erica-5-133x188.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a white horse, with sea in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-2603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erica-5-133x188.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erica-5-300x424.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erica-5-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Erica-5.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The business takes its name from Sarah\u2019s Eriskay pony, Erica (now sadly deceased). Eriskay ponies are a local Hebridean breed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Small Print<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The White Horse Press is a Limited Liability Partnership, incorporated in England No. OC407275. <br>Our registered address is: The Old Vicarage, Main Street, Winwick, Cambridgeshire PE28 5PN, UK. <br>Our business address for banking purposes is: 99 (flat 6) Viewforth, Edinburgh EH10 4LL, UK. <br>Our UK VAT number is: 596858068.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers of scholarly books and journals on environment, history and society The Team The White Horse Press LLP is an independent family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"info-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}