A very interesting British provincial publisher that produces a lot
of original books on early modern Britain is Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd,
Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire. They have a good deal of local civil
war history (an excellent volume on the archeological work on the siege of
Gloucester, for instance, a Cromwellian gazeteer on civil war and
commonwealth Britain by Peter Gaunt).
I recommend their catalogue to anyone interested in early modern
British history.
The Harvester Press are also involved in history publishing. They
are also 'off London' unless I'm wrong.
In the US, the Liberty Classics (whose exact whereabouts I don't
have in mind just now --is it Indiana??) publish a lot of very important
pieces in political ideas (Algernon Sidney, Hume's History of Britain, and
many others).
These are just a few instances, off the cuff, of non-university
presses publishing important stuff. There's the same sort of houses for
history of philosophy in Northern Europe, mostly Netherlands and Germany,
or Vrin in Paris, which are small major publishers in their field.
Enjoy yourselves,
Luc Borot
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