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Great Russell St, WC1. Map D2.
Tel 020 7323 8000. Open 10am–
5:30pm daily (selected galleries
until 8:30pm Fri). Closed 1 Jan,
92 Good Fri & 24–26 Dec. 8 9
93 7 0 - = ∑ british
museum.org
94 . Lindow Man Transport
The skin on this 2,000-year-old 3 Euston, King’s Cross. @ 1, 8,
human body was preserved 10, 14, 19, 24, 25, 29, 38, 55, 73,
by the acids of a peat-bog 134, 188. 1 Holborn, Russell Sq, Houses on Bedford Square, Bloomsbury
in Cheshire. He was Tottenham Court Rd.
probably killed in an i Bloomsbury
65 elaborate ritual.
The Great Court is WC1. Map D3. 1 Russell Sq,
53 London’s largest covered
64 54 square, with shops, cafés, Tottenham Court Rd.
66 55 52 a restaurant, display areas A traditional centre of the book
63 51 and educational facilities. trade, Bloomsbury is home to
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50 numerous writers and artists.
It is dominated by the British
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Museum and the University of
49 London and characterized by
fine Georgian squares. These
46 include Russell Square, where
41 the poet T S Eliot (1888–1965)
72 worked for publisher Faber &
40 39 47 Faber for 40 years; Queen Square,
36 38 which contains a statue of Queen
37 Charlotte, wife of George III;
70 and Bloomsbury Square, laid
68 out in 1661. A plaque here
27 69 First floor commemorates members of
the Bloomsbury Group (see p81).
69a Several members of the group,
The Reading Room Mildenhall Treasure including prominent
was built in 1857. The Great Dish was figures such as novelists
among the 34 pieces of Virginia Woolf and E M
1 4th-century AD Roman Forster, lived in houses
silver tableware ploughed around Gordon
up in Suffolk in 1942. Square. Charles
Dickens lived
at 48 Doughty
2 Street during a
brief but critical
3
stage in his
career, and it
was here that he
wrote Oliver Twist.
7 Waddesdon His former Queen Charlotte
Bequest Gallery home is now the (1744–1818)
6 Charles Dickens
Main entrance Museum, which has rooms laid
13 11 out as they were in Dickens’s
time, with objects taken from his
The Egyptian Gallery
This gallery on the ground other London homes and first
floor houses the famous editions of many of his works.
Rosetta Stone. Found in
1799, the inscription on it E Charles Dickens Museum
enabled 19th-century 48 Doughty St, WC1. Tel 020 7405
scholars to decipher 2127. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun. &
Egyptian hieroglyphs. - = ∑ dickensmuseum.com

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