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A collection of articles I've written about Bloomsbury from 2018 to 2023, offering cultural observations through the lens of our beloved Cowman. This project is sponsored by the Foundling Museum—an independent art charity with deep roots in Bloomsbury.

For more about this project and other content such as podcasts and culture maps, please see here.

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Sanmao in London | Foundling Museum | Lemn Sissay

Beara Beara | British Vintage | Bloomsbury

Sir John Soane’s Museum | K2 Telephone Booth | JMW Turner

History of British supermarket | Grocery shopping in London

Marie Stopes' Mother's Clinic | Family Planning |

Virginia Woolf, Thomas Malthus, Aldous Huxley

Persephone Books | 20 years in Bloomsbury

Chiang Yee | the Silent Traveller | #StopAsianHate movement

Venessa Bell's New Year's Gift | handmade calendars | countryside

Covid Letters | The Foundling Museum | Boris Johnson

Food delivery in a pandemic | UK's first food delivery driver |

Post-war women's history

The Grand Tour | UK and Italy | Renaissance |

English pubs and Chinese inns | pub names | bare-knuckle boxing

Chimney sweeps | London's old houses | William Blake

Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | parties and flowers | post-pandemic life

Harry Potter is a foundling | Lemn Sissy | UK's care system

British art history | pregnancy portraiture | women's history |

The Foundling Museum

St Thomas's Hospital | Florence Nightingale | Lytton Strachey |

Eminent Victorians

Virginia Woolf | A room of one's own | Quarantine | E.M Foster

The invention of quarantine | The Foundling Museum |

history of pandemic

Lao She in Bloomsbury | Er Ma | Chinese literature

Sandwiches | Public parks | Bloomsbury

Charles Dickens in Bloomsbury | Food history | Doughty Street

Royal Patronage | The Foundling Museum | History

Royal Patronage | The Foundling Museum | Contemporary