What is the Bloomsbury Project?

The Leverhulme-funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life

Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions

Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described

This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents

 

Bloomsbury Institutions

British Museum

Bloomsbury Institutions

Bloomsbury Streets and Squares

Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project

Cultural

Art Workers’ Guild

British Museum
Browning Society

Crew’s Circulating Library

Dr Williams’s Library

Egypt Exploration Fund

Grant’s Museum of Zoology
Graphic Society

Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks
Mazzini Garibaldi Club
Mudie’s Circulating Library

Natural History Agency

Panarmion
Parkes Museum

Royal London Bazaar
Russell Institution

Sampson Low’s Circulating Library
Shelley Society

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