Bloomsbury

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Xmas Pop-Up Record Shop

Bloomsbury gallery becomes a record shop for one day.

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British Museum Is Top Visitor Attraction Again

The Art Fund Museum of the Year is also the most visited attraction in London

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Higher Education For Sale: Private College To Charge £18,000 A Year

If you can’t beat ‘em, join them: elite private £18,000-a-year university to ‘rival Oxbridge’.

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Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 25 February 2011

A tour of the museum and an interview with its staff about an invisible history, and a new Grayson Perry exhibition.

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Extra Extra

Monday news. Amongst other things, find out why TfL and the Royal Academy are in trouble.

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Hand-Drawn Maps Of London: Newcomer To Bloomsbury

A newcomer to London draws her initial impressions, and romantic interludes, around the Bloomsbury area.

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Biblio-Text: Gosh Comics

We pay a visit to Gosh Comics in Bloomsbury.

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New Plans To Transform Bloomsbury, Holborn

Sir Terry Farrell has been given the job of masterplanning the areas of Bloomsbury, Holborn, and St. Giles. Inmidtown, the unfortunately named Business Improvement District set up in 1996 that comprises the area, favoured Farrell’s idea, which yokes together the districts around Holborn Circus into …

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The Tasting Sessions Celebrate Second Anniversary

Londonist has been following the craftily curated food and drink “voyage of enlightenment and discovery” of The Tasting Sessions since we were invited to their Cognac tasting back in March 09. We’re pleased to see they’re still kicking around and that they’re about to celebrate …

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New App Tours The Gruesome History Of Medical London

A new app for iPhone (and Appley variants thereof) takes listeners on an audiovisual tour of Bloomsbury. Not the bookish, bonking Bloomsbury of V. Woolf and chums, but the gory medical heritage of this deceptively quiescent quarter. Subtitled Blood, Guts, Brains and Babies (as with …

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London Entrepreneurs: Bea Vo of Bea’s of Bloomsbury

Photo by Chris Osburn Looking at the personalities behind London’s small businesses Add Washington D.C., Cordon Bleu, Asia de Cuba, Nobu, Ottolenghi, sweets, savouries and Bloomsbury and who do you get? Why, Bea Vo owner of Bea’s of Bloomsbury, of course! How did Bea’s of …