Editing Bloomsbury (section)

==Culture==
Historically, Bloomsbury is associated with the arts, education, and medicine. The area gives its name to the [[Bloomsbury Group]] of artists, among whom was [[Virginia Woolf]], who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s,<ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Fargis |title=The New York Public Library Desk Reference – 3rd Edition |year=1998 |publisher=Macmillan General Reference |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkpublicli100newy/page/262 262] |isbn=0-02-862169-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkpublicli100newy }}</ref> and to the lesser known [[Bloomsbury Gang]] of [[British Whig Party|Whigs]] formed in 1765 by [[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford]]. The publisher [[Faber & Faber]] used to be located in [[Queen Square, London|Queen Square]], though at the time [[T. S. Eliot]] was editor the offices were in Tavistock Square. The [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]] was founded in John Millais's parents' house on [[Gower Street, London|Gower Street]] in 1848.

The Bloomsbury Festival was launched in 2006 when local resident Roma Backhouse was commissioned to mark the re-opening of the Brunswick Centre, a residential and shopping area. The free festival is a celebration of the local area, partnering with galleries, libraries and museums,<ref>{{cite web |title=Preview: The Bloomsbury Festival |url=http://londonist.com/2012/10/preview-the-bloomsbury-festival.php |publisher=Londonist |access-date=8 October 2013 |date=16 October 2012 }}</ref> and achieved charitable status at the end of 2012. As of 2013, the Duchess of Bedford is a festival patron and Festival Directors have included Cathy Maher (2013), Kate Anderson (2015–2019) and Rosemary Richards (2020–present).<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/history-2/ |publisher=Bloomsbury Festival |access-date=8 October 2013 |date=October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024044933/http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/history-2/ |archive-date=24 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Team |url=http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/the-team/ |publisher=Bloomsbury Festival |access-date=8 October 2013 |date=October 2013 |archive-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024063123/http://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/the-team/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Educational institutions===
[[File:Wilkins Building 2, UCL, London - Diliff (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[UCL Main Building|Main Building]] of [[University College London]]]]
Bloomsbury is home to the federal University of London's central administrative centre and library, Senate House, as well as many of its independent members institutions including Birkbeck College, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Oriental and African Studies, School of Advanced Study, Royal Veterinary College, and [[University College London]] (which has now absorbed the formerly separate School of Eastern European and Slavonic Studies, School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Education academic institutions). Bloomsbury is also home to [[London Contemporary Dance School]], [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], a branch of University of Law, [[Architectural Association School of Architecture]], and the London campuses of several American colleges including [[Arcadia University]], [[University of California]], [[University of Delaware]], [[Florida State University]], [[Syracuse University]], [[New York University]], and [[Hult International Business School]].

The growing private tutoring sector in Bloomsbury includes various tutoring businesses such as Bloomsbury International (for English language), Bloomsbury Law Tutors (for law education), Skygate Tutors, and Topmark Tutors Centre.

===Museums===
[[File:British Museum Great Court, London, UK - Diliff (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|The [[Queen Elizabeth II Great Court]]]]
The [[British Museum]], which first opened to the public in 1759 in [[Montagu House, Bloomsbury|Montagu House]], is at the heart of Bloomsbury. At the centre of the museum the space around the former [[British Library Reading Room]], which was filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library, is today the [[Queen Elizabeth II Great Court]], an indoor square with a glass roof designed by British architect [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]]. It houses displays, a cinema, a shop, a cafe and a restaurant. 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. The hospital, now demolished except for the Georgian [[colonnade]], is today a playground and outdoor sports field for children, called [[Coram's Fields]]. It is also home to a small number of sheep. The nearby [[Lamb's Conduit Street]] is a pleasant thoroughfare with shops, cafes and restaurants.

The [[Dickens House|Dickens Museum]] is in [[Doughty Street]]. The [[Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology]] and the [[University College London#Special collections|Grant Museum of Zoology]] are at University College London in Gower Street.

The [[Postal Museum, London|Postal Museum]] is on 15-20 Phoenix Place.

===Churches===
[[File:St George, Bloomsbury (35970241823).jpg|thumb|St George, Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury's parish church]]
Bloomsbury contains several notable churches:

* [[St. George's Church, Bloomsbury]], located on Bloomsbury Way. This is Bloomsbury's own parish church, and was built by [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]] between 1716 and 1731. It has a deep Roman porch with six huge [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]] columns, and is notable for its steeple based on the [[Tomb of Mausolus]] at [[Halicarnassus]] and for the statue of King [[George II of Great Britain|George I]] on the top.
* [[St Giles in the Fields]], also known as the ''Poet's Church''. The current church building was built in the [[Palladian architecture|Palladian]] style in 1733.
* The Early English Neo-Gothic [[Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury|Church of Christ the King]] on [[Gordon Square]]. It was designed for the [[Irvingites]]<ref>[http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/2005/07/church_of_chris.php Church of Christ the King] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106111230/http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/2005/07/church_of_chris.php |date=6 November 2007 }}. Retrieved 8 March 2007.</ref> by Raphael Brandon in 1853. Since 10 June 1954 it has been a Grade I [[listed building]].
* [[St Pancras New Church]], near [[Euston railway station|Euston station]]. This church was completed in 1822, and is notable for the [[caryatids]] on north and south which are based on the "porch of the maidens" from the [[Erechtheum|Temple of the Erechtheum]].
* The church of [[St George the Martyr Holborn]], in [[Queen Square, London|Queen Square]] was built 1703–06,<ref>[http://www.sgtm.org/about/index.asp St George's Bloomsbury] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123192722/http://www.sgtm.org/about/index.asp |date=23 November 2007 }}. Retrieved 8 March 2007.</ref> and was where [[Ted Hughes]] and [[Sylvia Plath]] married on [[Bloomsday]] in 1956.<ref>Walking Literary London, Roger Tagholm, New Holland Publishers, 2001.</ref>
* Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church in [[Shaftesbury Avenue]], is the central church of the [[Baptists|Baptist]] denomination. It was opened in 1848, having been built by Sir Samuel Moreton Peto MP, one of the great railway contractors of the age.<ref>[http://bloomsbury.org.uk/church/page/our_history/ Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church History Page] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140612100500/http://bloomsbury.org.uk/church/page/our_history/ |date=12 June 2014 }}. Retrieved 27 May 2014.</ref>
[[File:London St Pancras New Church portico.jpg|thumb|right|upright|200px|[[St Pancras New Church]]]]