Outdoor Sculpture at BL – Newton after Blake by Eduardo Paolozzi. The sculpture is based on William Blake’s 1795 print of Newton: Personification of Man Limited by Reason. Eduardo, born in 1924 in Scotland. His family had migrated from Italy and during the war were seen as alien, enemy of the State, and imprisoned for 3 months. His father, uncle and grandfather drowned on a ship to Canada, sunken by a German U boat.
The Place, formerly headquarters for the 38th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps (Artists). Strong links with the Royal Academy and included volunteer artists such as William Morris, Frederick Leighton. Wilfred Owen enlisted in the corps in1915
Tavistock House – home of Charles Dickens (building demolished in 1901)
Tavistock Square Gardens – copy of Bronze Virginia Woolfe sculpture by Stephen Tomlin 1931, erected in 2004. Stephen Tomlin, sculptor, relationship with Duncan Grant.
Tavistock Hotel – 52 Tavistock Sq, home of Virginia and Leonard Woolfe (1924-1939 bombed in war in 1940) – location of the Hogarth Press 1924-1939. WShe wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Orlando and A room of One’s Own at this home.
Hogarth Press, founded in the Woolfe’s home (Hogarth House) in Richmond in 1917. Woolfe’s purchased a printing press for £19 (equivalent to £1300 today) and printed from their dining room, publishing works from the group, literature on psychoanalysis and foreign translations. Published works include Virginia novels: Orlando, The Waves and A Room of One’s Own
Gay’s the word Bookshop, 66 Marchmont St. Oldest LGBT bookshop founded in 1979. In 1984 directors were charged with conspiracy to import indecent books and a large public campaign raised £55000 to defend the directors, with a donation of £3000 from Gore Vidal.
26 Queens Square, William Morris firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co moved there in 1865 and Morris lived above shop until 1872. The location was significant to the Arts and Crafts movement.
Further along the road on Boswell Street opened The Poetry Bookshop by Harold Munro in 1913 and closed in 1926. Published and sold works by contemporary writers including Ezra Pound, Wilfred Owen, W B Yeats
St George the Marytr Church – Silvia Plath and Ted Hughes married here in 1956
Russell Square SOAS formerly No 24, Faber and Faber. T S Eliot worked here for 40 years starting in 1925.
Stephen Sisters, Vanessa and Virginia, and brothers Thoby and Adrian home: moved in 1907-1911 after the death of their father. They hosted the first Bloomsbury Group Thursday evening meetings with guests Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, EM Forster and John Maynard Keynes.- 46 Gordon Square
46 Gordon sq later home of John Maynard Keynes, economist and first director of Arts Council England
Gordon Square Gardens – Sculpture of the Indian poet, philosopher and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941 who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Peace prize in Literature), Memorial bust of Noor Inayat Khan (1914-44) a Special Operations Executive SOE in second world war (first female wireless operator) sent to occupied France to conduct espionage and executed at Dachau concentration camp.
Gordon Street, Bloomsbury theatre, founded in 1968 as the collegiate theatre, since renamed The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre. In 2018, I performed and created the Bareback Museum, Life Drawing and sexual health performance workshop in collaboration with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and Angela Hodgeson-Teall, funded by UCL Urban Laboratory
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Omega Workshops- 33 Fitzroy Square – opened in 1913 by Roger Fry (art critic and French post impressionist painter), Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as directors – produced interior design furniture, fabrics and hand painted crafts – closed in 1919.
© Annabel Cole
44 Bedford Square – home of Bloomsbury Group patron, Lady Ottolin Morrell
47 Bedford Square – First higher education college for women in Britain
108 Whitfield Street – Marie Stopes home in 1924 and first family planning clinic, published sex manual ‘Married Love’ in 1918
Wellcome Collection sign language exhibition: ‘1880 THAT’ is a new exhibition, which explores sign language and the right to communicate. It brings together new and recent work by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The exhibition explores the idea of language as a home – an essential place of belonging – and what it means to live with the threat of losing one’s language. Wellcome Collection libray contains books by Hogarth Press on psychoanalisis and Woolfe. Cayley Robinson Acts on Mercy Painitings on display made in 1915
Current and upcoming exhibitions:
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant exhibition at Tate November 2026
NPG – The Memoir club by Vanessa Bell https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw85227
Virginia Woolfe by Vanessa Bell https://www.npg.org.uk/schools-hub/virginia-woolf-by-vanessa-bell
Wednesdays Pop-Up Displays: Amongst Visions
Holly Davey’s current work intertwines with her on-going research supported by London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) into women artists at the margins of collections and archival spaces and why they have been forgotten. Opening hours: Visit Amongst Visions during UCL Art Museum’s Prints & Drawings Room public opening hours, Wednesdays 1-5pm between 24 September and 26 November 2025.