Still searching out rare books and catering for every taste, alongside their campus and high street stores, Blackwell has a number of specialist stores including several medical outlets and a Blackwell specialising in the oil industry in Books from Blackwell were soon lining the walls of not only Britain's academic institutions and fine homes, but also the library shelves of the new universities in the British Empire and America After nearly 130 years of selling books out of Oxford, Blackwell can boast a unique pedigree and fascinating history in selling books to literary giants, academics and the general public In 1995, www.blackwell.co.uk became the first transactional online bookstore in the UK, giving people across the world access to over 150,000 titles