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The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury London: The Hogarth Press Ltd, 1974. Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press; 26 January 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6. Knights, Sarah. Bloomsbury's Outsider: A Life of David Garnett, Bloomsbury Reader, Paperback and Digital, 15 May 2015, ISBN 978-1-4482 ...
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square [ 3 ] in Bloomsbury , an area of the London Borough of Camden .
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
On the wall of the University College building, an elaborate wall plaque carries the legend: "Close to this place Richard Trevithick (Born 1771 - Died 1833) Pioneer of High Pressure Steam ran in the year 1808 the first steam locomotive to draw passengers." It was erected by "The Trevithick Centenary Memorial Committee". [9]
Depiction of traders under the buttonwood tree A 1797 painting by Francis Guy.The building with the American flag is the Tontine Coffee House. Diagonally opposite (southeast corner, extreme right) [1] is the Merchant's Coffee House, where the brokers of the Buttonwood Agreement and others traded before the construction of the Tontine.
Children's Press (spelled "Childrens Press" from 1945 to 1996) – founded in 1945, [25] and formerly headquartered in 1224 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Illinois until it was acquired by Grolier in 1995 moving its operations to New York City, New York and Danbury, Connecticut, and which then became part of Scholastic Corporation in 2000. [26]
The house was threatened with demolition by the British Museum in 1860, along with Numbers 2 and 3 and the fourteen houses to the south in Bloomsbury Street, but nothing came of the museum's plans. [17] Then in the early 1930s a new building was planned which would stand only 20 feet from the rear elevation of Number 1. [17]
That building is now used by the School of Oriental and African Studies (a college of the University of London). [8] In 1998, the London Mathematical Society moved from rooms in Burlington House to De Morgan House, at 57–58 Russell Square, in order to accommodate staff expansion. [9] Russell Square cabmen's shelter