What is the Bloomsbury Project?
The -funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life
Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions
Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described
This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents
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Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project
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Julian Goldsmid (1838–1896)
a summary of his Bloomsbury connections
He was Treasurer of University College London in the 1880s (H. Hale Bellot, University College London 1826–1926, 1929), Liberal MP for South St Pancras (The Times, 4 June 1886), and, from October 1877, also a governor of the Foundling Hospital (R. H. Nichols and F. A. Wray, The History of the Foundling Hospital, 1935)
On his death in January 1896 John Simon wrote to The Times to praise him as the last of the three generations of Goldsmids who had struggled for Jewish emancipation, supported infant education for Jewish children, and helped found and serve the University of London (later University College London) and the North London Hospital (later University College Hospital) (The Times, 13 January 1896)
The latter, in particular, wrote Simon, “owes its existence to the Goldsmids, and they have been from first to last its main props” (The Times, 13 January 1896)
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