At the Sign of the Plough. 275 years of Allen & Hanburys and the British pharmaceutical industry, 1715-1990

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Scholarly commissioned narrative history. Heavily illustrated. 'The story presented here is a remarkable one: it tells how a small Quaker apothecary's shop, founded in the City of London in 1715, emerged in recent times as one of the industry's leaders within its specialised field; and how its product line evolved from the dispensing of medieval plant medicines to the manufacture of science based synthetic drugs. In short, the history of Allen & Hanburys is synonymous with the development of the British pharmaceutical industry'. Does not deal 'extensively' with labour relations, social history of the firm or overseas activities. Chapters include: 'Joseph Gurney Bevan takes command'; 'Science and enterprise - Plough Court under William Allen and John T Barry'; 'Expansion under the Hanburys, 1850s-1893'; 'Allen & Hanburys Ltd - The Universal Provider'; 'The firm between the wars'; 'An end and a beginning, 1940-58'; 'Allen & Hanburys and the chemotherapeutic revolution'; 'Allen & Hanburys in the 1980s'. Has a chronology and family tree descending from Capel and Elizabeth Hanbury