Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia have been synonims of literature, art and erudition. The Bloomsbury artists and writers were active till 1930's. The name Fitzrovia was invented by Dylan Thomas, who was a client in the Fitzroy Tavern.
Sites to visit:
- British Museum
- Bloomsbury Square (Virginia Woolf and friends lived there)
- Saint George Church
- Russell Square (one of the biggest squares in London; you can find the best Victorian hotel, the Russel Hotel; the poet T.S. Elliot worked in the western corner of the square)
- Queen Square (George III stayed in a doctor's house who tried to cure him from a hereditary illness which drove him to madness and death)
- Charles Dickens Museum (he lived in here for 3 very productive years)
- Foundling Museum ( Captain Thomas Coram tried to give abandoned children housing and schooling. His friend William Hogarth gave him many pictures and he created the first art gallery in Britain, to invite rich people to his hospital and hope they left donations for the children)
- British Library
- Saint Pancras International
- Saint Pancras Parish Church (the outside looks very much like the Acropolis in Athens)
- Woburn Walk
- Pecival David Foundation for Chinese Art
- Fitzroy Square
- Fitzroy Tavern (famous clients: Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and Augustus John)
- Charlotte Street
- Pollock's Toy Museum
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