Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
12 July 2005


                   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ('the Company')

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC announces that Dr. Kathryn Rooney, a PDMR, has
exercised options to subscribe for 139,389 ordinary shares at 220.25p per share
on 11 July 2005 and has today sold 139,389 ordinary shares at 385p per share.


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