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TOUR | Bloomsbury: Urban Gentility and Bastions of Academia

  • 28 Jan 2017
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Holborn Station, Kingsway, WC2B 6AA
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Join Blue Badge Guide David Thompson for a fascinating stroll round one of London's most elegant estate.

Developed through the 18th century by the Russell Family – the Dukes of Bedford – Bloomsbury presents an image of genteel living in elegant terraces and squares, as famously satirized in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. 


In the 19th century Bloomsbury’s well-heeled residents held back the onslaught of the Age of Steam. But ironically in the 20th century a stealthful infiltration by Academia destroyed much of the area’s ordered urban fabric.

On this walk we explore through the buildings of Bloomsbury both its development as a residential district and subsequent emergence as a centre of learning and knowledge.

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