What is the Bloomsbury Project?

The Leverhulme-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

Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project

Cartoon satirising the British College of Health

Bloomsbury Institutions

Bloomsbury Streets, Squares, and Buildings

Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project

Charles Stewart Loch (1849–1923)

a summary of his Bloomsbury connections

He was Hon. Secretary of the Charity Organisation Society from 1875 until forced to resign through ill-health in 1914

He urged the introduction of hospital almoners in 1892; the first appeared at the Royal Free Hospital in 1895

He was knighted in 1915

For more general biographical information about Charles Stewart Loch, see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography