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Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford. None of the original 17th-century buildings survive, but there are many handsome 18th- and early 19th-century houses.
Since 1998, the British Library has been located in a purpose-built building just outside the northern edge of Bloomsbury, in Euston Road. Also in Bloomsbury is the Foundling Museum, close to Brunswick Square, which tells the story of the Foundling Hospital opened by Thomas Coram for unwanted children in Georgian London.
46 Gordon Square, where Virginia Woolf lived with her siblings from 1904 to 1907 (the first among the writer's five Bloomsbury addresses) [2] and where John Maynard Keynes lived from 1916 to 1946. The economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) lived at 46 Gordon Square, [ 3 ] marked by a blue plaque .
Building structures mostly used a simple beam and column system without vaults or arches, which based strict limits on the spans that could be achieved. However, the Greeks did construct some groin vaults, arch bridges and, with the Egyptians, the first high rise, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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 ...
But something else happened as well — something much less predictable and much more surprising. Individuals around the world took up Cliteracy as a rallying cry. From college campuses in the midwest to the spray-painted remnants of the Berlin Wall, the clitoris is popping up in unexpected places. Wallace’s work has sparked a conversation.
Bedford Square from the BT Tower in 1966 Bedford Square (2005) Panorama of Bedford Square. Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, including Lord Eldon, one of Britain's longest serving and most celebrated Lord Chancellors, who lived in the largest house in the square for many years. [1]
“These residences and churches together (around the year of 1000 ) are where the aristocracy start to kind of invest in their own kind of displays.