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Bertrams was the second largest United Kingdom based wholesaler of books, [1] owned since 2018 by Aurelius Investments. It has 200,000 titles available for same-day despatch and has access to over 13 million books in print. The group includes Bertram Books, Bertram Publisher Services and Bertram Library Services.
The Bertrams' presence in Mitford dates back to the Norman Conquest of England. Prior to 1066, Mitford Castle was held by Sir John de Mitford, whose only daughter and heir, Sybilla Mitford, was married by William the Conqueror to the Norman knight Sir Richard de Bertram. This strategic marriage brought Mitford Castle and its lands into the ...
At Bertram's Hotel is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 15 November 1965 [2] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1966.
Later in 1757, [b] at Stukeley's urging, [5] [12] Bertram published the full text in a volume alongside Gildas's Ruin of Britain and the History of the Britons traditionally ascribed to Nennius. [1] Bertram's preface noted that the work "contains many fragments of a better time, which would now in vain be sought for elsewhere".
Charles Julius Bertram (1723–1765) was an English expatriate in Denmark who "discovered"—and presumably wrote—The Description of Britain (Latin: De Situ Britanniae), an 18th-century literary forgery purporting to be a mediaeval work on history that remained undetected for over a century.
Elsie Bertram MBE (née Hacking; 6 June 1912 – 26 October 2003) was an English wholesale publishers' bookseller and philanthropist who co-founded the Bertrams books wholesaler in 1968. She became wholesale distributor for Pan Paperbacks in East Anglia in 1965 before going on to obtain a contract to accommodate a children's book list from ...
Bertram Wagstaff Mills (August 1873 – 16 April 1938) was a British circus owner originally from Paddington, London, who ran the Bertram Mills Circus.His circus became famous in the UK for its Christmas shows at Olympia in West London televised in 1938, 1946 and 1947.
Richard Howard Bertram (4 February 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a champion sailor on powerboats and racing yachts and a leading boat builder and broker. [1] Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Bertram learned to sail at a young age with his parents on the waters of Barnegat Bay .