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

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Bloomsbury Institutions

Bloomsbury Streets, Squares, and Buildings

Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project

Andrew Amos (1791–1860)

a summary of his Bloomsbury connections

He had been a schoolfellow of the poet Shelley at Eton

He was the first Professor of Law at the University of London (later University College London); the lecture hall was packed at his opening lecture in 1829

His son was Sheldon Amos, who became Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL in 1869, and who married Sarah Bunting, Lady Superintendent of the Working Women’s College, in 1870

For more general biographical information about Andrew Amos, see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography