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Founded in 1975 by John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons , and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right ...
Jackson, Livingstone and Peake began publishing the monthly games newsletter, Owl and Weasel (1975–1977), to provide support for their business. [1] Peake was not interested in the new role-playing game industry, and when he saw that Games Workshop was getting more involved with RPGs he left the company in 1976.
Bryan Charles Ansell (11 October 1955 – 30 December 2023) [1] [2] was a British role-playing and wargame designer. [3] In 1985, he became managing director of Games Workshop, and eventually bought the company from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
A key factor is the location of Games Workshop, the biggest wargames miniature manufacturer in the world. Games Workshop was brought to Nottingham by Bryan Ansell in the early 1980s. Ansell had previously founded Citadel Miniatures at Newark, Nottinghamshire in 1979. Many former Games Workshop staff have gone on to found other manufacturers in ...
Livingstone co-founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with flatmates John Peake and Steve Jackson. [7] [8]: 43 They began publishing the monthly newsletter Owl and Weasel, and distributed copies of the first issue to fanzine Albion subscribers; Brian Blume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game Dungeons & Dragons in return.
[3]: 43 While selling game products directly from their flat, their landlord evicted them in summer 1976 after people kept going there looking for a physical store. [3]: 43 By 1978 the first Games Workshop store had opened, in London. [4] At a Games Day convention in 1980 Jackson and Livingstone met Geraldine Cooke, an editor at Penguin Books ...
Less than a year later, in late 1978, Citadel Miniatures was started by Ansell/Games Workshop, as announced in White Dwarf issue 11: Games Workshop and Bryan Ansell have got together to keep-alive Citadel Miniatures, a new miniatures company that will be manufacturing several ranges of figures.
The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop (formerly a part of BL Publishing) which is devoted to publishing novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) set in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 fictional universes.