Director Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
13 January 2003



                           Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
                            Directors' Shareholding


London, 13 January 2003: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ('Bloomsbury' or 'the 
Company') announces that two directors have exercised options to subscribe for 
shares in the Company.

Kathy Rooney, Publishing Director with responsibility for the Reference and
Electronic Media Division, has exercised options to subscribe for 7,229 Ordinary
Shares at 103.8p per share, 10,117 Ordinary Shares at 102p per share and 14,240
Ordinary Shares at 83p per share under the 1994 approved Share Option Scheme on
13th January 2003. Following this exercise, Ms Rooney has increased her
shareholding from 12,150 shares to 43,736 shares in the Company.  She also holds
186,500 options to subscribe under the Unapproved scheme.

Alexandra Pringle, Editor-in-Chief of the Book Division, has exercised options
to subscribe for 12,765 Ordinary Shares at 235p per share under the 1994
approved Share Option Scheme on 13th January 2003.  She subsequently sold 12,765
ordinary shares at 675p per share on the same day, in order to finance the
purchase of a house.  Following this exercise and subsequent sale, Ms Pringle
now holds 50,735 options to subscribe under the unapproved scheme.


For further details, please contact:

Impact Consultancy Ltd
Kirsty Black 020 7072 2315


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