Who are UKEssays?
As innovators in the field, we consistently develop our services to ensure that we provide you, our customers, with the best possible help to help you achieve the grade that you deserve.
How We Started
Barclay Littlewood founded the company in 2003. From Day One he instilled an aim to strive for excellence in the company. Barclay created many of the service features and introduced the list of unrivalled guarantees that have placed us firmly at the helm of the essay writing services market.
Our Writers
We use over 500 experts, each thoroughly vetted by our in-house quality team. This means that we can assign the most suitable expert with the right qualifications and experience to write you the best possible essay. All of our experts have obtained at least a 2:1 degree and have displayed a consistent ability to write to a 2:1 or first-class standard.
75,000+
Customers
1.8bn+
Words Written
500+
Active Writers
The History of UK Essays
2003
July - Barclay Littlewood started a small website offering help to students who were studying undergraduate law. He solely managed the website and also wrote the model essays himself (Barclay is a qualified lawyer).
November - Company was formed Barclay founded a company called Academic Answers and employed a small team who were tasked with developing the website and to also begin to recruit talented, qualified writers in a broad range of academic subjects - See our company’s registration details.
2004
April - We developed our own unique piece of software We employed a team of programmers to start building our own unique software that works efficiently alongside our in-house team to take in, manage and allocate the orders to the most appropriate writer. This system is constantly being developed and has now become one of our biggest assets.
2009
March - Academic Answers' name is changed to All Answers The company’s name was changed to reflect the future vision we have for the company more accurately. The ‘all’ now encompasses the ability to answer any writing question.
July - Tony became our CEO Tony took over from Barclay as our CEO. His role is to carry on with the aim to deliver excellence. Barclay took on the role of business and personal development consultant.
December - We completed our 10,000th order We reached our 10,000th order! Thank you to all our customers for helping us to reach this amazing goal. Onwards and upwards to 20,000 orders!
2010
March - We moved to larger offices in Arnold Nottingham. With the fast growth of our company we needed to move to a bigger office. With the extra space we have now opened our doors to welcome students to come and visit us.
May - We introduce new marking and proofreading services We introduced a new service that allows students to have their essays, dissertations and assignments marked and critiqued by a university professor. This service has grown into an invaluable tool for students to find any errors or weak areas in their work before it’s handed in. Find out more about this service.
2012
May - We were featured on BBC Radio Mark Dennison from BBC Radio Nottingham interviewed our quality manager about the ethics of using an essay writing service.
July - We introduced multiple currencies on our order form We can now take payment in UK pounds, US and Australian dollars and Euros. We also take orders that will be written for each country's specific educational system.
November - PowerPoint, report and reflective practice writing services added.
2014
February - A one tier marking service which took our 3 different product levels and combined them into one.
October - We reached our 85,000th order! Thank you to all our customers for helping us to reach this amazing goal. Onwards and upwards to 100,000 orders!
2015
April - Exam revision service which offers students help with revision was added to our services. Find out more about our exam revision service here.
November - We were featured in a BBC programme discussing essay writing services. Throughout the programme it was confirmed we delivered on all our guarantees.
2016
June - We launched a world first: a free marking service, allowing all students to get a free mark on their essay.
2017
February - We hit a big milestone: 125,000 orders! To all the students we’ve helped over the years – thank you for choosing UK Essays.
October - Our new order form launches: We launched a brand new, revamped order form, with a form personalised to each product, making it even easier for customers to send through all the information we need to do a fantastic job.
2018
April - The new EU regulation - GDPR - came into force, so we improved our security and privacy options.
July - We began our partnership with Reviews.io, who gather fully verified reviews for all our customers to see!
August - We overhauled our Dissertation Title service, with two options available.
September - A huge update to our order form was released, bringing loads of great new features to make using it even easier.
November – We launched a new product for students looking for help creating a Poster.
2019
February - International Baccalaureate grades are now available to select on our order form.
October – We launched a new Case Study Service: you can now request help with Case Studies, ideal for students in business, nursing, education, marketing, and many more subject areas.
2023
January - UKEssays expands into new international markets including The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, The United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore.