These photographs form part of the London Image Collection and cover aspects of Bloomsbury. I have interpreted 'Bloomsbury' loosely, taking the British Museum and surrounding streets and Georgian squares as its core, but extending it to take in the new British Library near King's Cross and Lamb's Conduit Street to the southeast. Bloomsbury is also a state of mind as well as geographic location: the heart of Victorian literary London, home to the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, long the focus of London's intellectual left and home of the University of London.
Find here images of the British Museum, the British Museum's Great Court, the British Library and some of its modern sculpture (Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's statue Newton as the Ancient of Days, for example; someone reading on a great chained book), Bloomsbury mews houses, a bust of philosopher Bertrand Russell and some of the plaques and signs which trace the literary, intellectual and scientific history of Bloomsbury, such as the London home of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and that of the inventor of the marine chronometer, John Harrison.
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