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Sir John Alexander Hammerton (born 27 February 1871 in Alexandria, Scotland; died 12 May 1949 in London) is described by the Dictionary of National Biography as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known".
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- Tea in Ten Minutes Sir John Alexander Hammerton Audiobook
- Collaboration with Arthur Mee
- Work on encyclopedias
- The Great War
- Popular History
- Other works
- List of works
- References
Collaboration with Arthur Mee
Hammerton's first posts in journalism included a period in Nottingham, where he first met his lifelong collaborator and friend, Arthur Mee. In 1905, Hammerton joined Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. He and Mee produced the Harmsworth Self-Educator.
Work on encyclopedias
Hammerton contributed to the first edition of Mee's Children's Encyclopædia, which was a fortnightly series from 1908 till 1910 before being published in eight large volumes. Hammerton's contribution consisted of compiling articles on 'Famous Books' and 'Poetry'.
Hammerton's greatest achievement was Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopædia. It was published first as a fortnightly series from 1920 to 1922. The Encyclopaedia sold 12 million copies throughout the English-speaking world.
The Great War
From 1914 to 1919, Hammerton was joint editor with Herbert Wrigley Wilson of the periodical The Great War:The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict, published by the Amalgamated Press.
The first volume of The Great War concentrated on justifying Britain's entry into World War I, and with encouraging the British people to sign up and fight. In its entirety, The Great War ran to 13 volumes.
Popular History
In 1933, Hammerton's A Popular History of the Great War (in six volumes) was published. In his introduction to volume 1, Hammerton discusses the previous World War I series: 'Although it remains a storehouse of information for future students of the period, "The Great War", as that set of thirteen massive volumes was called, would now require to be largely re-written in light of later knowledge'.
Hammerton described Popular History as "embodying the gist of post-war revelations and official documents".
Popular History contains 3,840 pages of text, 100 maps and diagrams, and 800 photographs.
Other works
Hammerton later edited a biography of J. M. Barrie and studies of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. He also wrote Other Things than War: Musings and Memories (1943), and an autobiography, Books and Myself (1944).
Mee died in 1943. in 1946, Hammerton wrote a biography of him entitled Child of Wonder.