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A rights issue of shares in 1998 further raised £6.1 million, which was used to expand the company, in particular to found a U.S. branch. In 1998, Bloomsbury USA was established. Bloomsbury USA Books for Young Readers was established in 2002, and in 2005, Bloomsbury acquired Walker & Co, a small company dedicated to publishing nonfiction. [5]
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Cubitt had two brothers, the contractor and politician William and the civil engineer Lewis who designed many houses built by Thomas. [11]Cubitt married Mary Anne Warner (1802–1880), on 25 March 1821 in the church of St Marylebone and they had at least twelve children – Anne (1820), Mary (1821), Emily (1823), George (1828), Sophia (1830), Fanny (1832), William (1834), Lucy (1835), Caroline ...
She had recently inherited the agricultural fields now known as Bloomsbury from her father. Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802) came of age in 1786. He was a spendthrift gambler, with an interest in farming on the Woburn estate. However, he was not interested in Bedford House in Bloomsbury, instead living in the West End. In 1800 ...
The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, London, ... Building started in 1967 and was completed in 1972, [6] ...