High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Odhams Press was a British publishing firm. Originally a newspaper group, founded in 1890, it took the name Odham`s Press Ltd in 1920 when it merged with John Bull magazine. By 1937 it had founded the first colour weekly, Woman, for which it set up and operated a dedicated high-speed print works. The company also owned Ideal Home (founded 1920) and the well-known equestrian magazine Horse and Hound (acquired). Later Odhams expanded into book publishing (for example, publishing Winston Churchill`s Painting as a Pastime, The Gunnis Dictionary of British Sculpture 1660-1851, and an edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare).