John Hatchard John Hatchard John Hatchard (1769–1849) was an English publisher and bookseller, in Piccadilly, London. The Hatchards bookshop there is still in business. Hatchard had a trial at the works of the printer Thomas Bensley. He then served on apprenticeship, with John Ginger of College Street, Westminster. He later became an assistant to Thomas Payne of Mews Gate, and went into business on his own account at 173 Piccadilly, London. Starting there in 1797, he had the largest business in the retail book trade in London after four years. In 1801 Hatchard moved from 173 Piccadilly to No. 189–190; in 1820
Foreign Language Bookshop 2017 FLB is located on Victoria Street, Fitzroy. FLB is now owned by the Bookery which in turn is owned by the university sector in Australia. Foreign Language Bookshop Foreign Language Bookshop is the oldest and largest language bookshop in Australasia, established in 1938 as a free lending library by William Bernard (WB) Wigston. WB opened the doors to Foreign Language Bookshop in Bourke Street, Melbourne in 1938. The primary aim of the business was to reduce migrant isolation; particularly for European migrants from Germany, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Austria, disembarking from ships into Australia. Over time, increasing immigration from