Holding(s) in Company

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
03 July 2003



                                  SCHEDULE 10

                   NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

AVS NO

        All relevant boxes should be completed in block capital letters.

  1.  Name of company               2.  Name of shareholder having a major
                                        interest

      BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC         Threadneedle Investments



  3.  Please state whether          4.  Name of the registered holder(s) and,
      notification indicates that       if more than one holder, the number of
      it is in respect of holding       shares held by each of them
      of the shareholder named in
      2 above or in respect of a
      non-beneficial interest or
      in the case of an individual
      holder if it is a holding of
      that person's spouse or
      children under the age of
      18

      In respect of the                 Littledown nominees Ltd A/C 21667   
      non-beneficial interests of:      196,000
      Allied Dunbar Assurance plc;      Littledown nominees Ltd A/C 07203
      Eagle Star Life Assurance         140,000
      Company Ltd and Eagle Star        Littledown nominees Ltd A/C 07197
      Holdings Limited;                 880,000
      Threadneedle Asset                Littledown nominees Ltd A/C 05576
      Management Ltd, Threadneedle      3,054,248
      Pensions Ltd and                  Littledown nominees Ltd A/C 05577
      Threadneedle Asset                191,028
      Management Holdings Ltd;
      and, Allied Zurich Holdings
      Ltd, Zurich Financial
      Services (UKISA) Ltd, Zurich
      Group Holding, Zurich
      Insurance Company and Allied
      Zurich plc, which are all
      subsidiaries of Zurich
      Financial Services.


  5.  Number of    6.  Percentage   7.  Number of shares/  8.  Percentage of
      shares/          of issued        amount of stock        issued class
      amount of        class            disposed
      stock
      acquired

              -                -                      -                    -
                               

 9.  Class of security              10.  Date of           11.  Date company
                                         transaction            informed


     ORDINARY SHARES OF                            -            01 JULY 2003
     1.25P



 12.  Total holding following this    13.  Total percentage holding of issued
      notification                         class following this notification


                       4,461,276                                         6.5%




 14.  Any additional information   15.  Name of contact and telephone number
                                        for queries

                                        COLIN ADAMS - 020 7494 2111




 16.  Name and signature of authorised company official

      RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THIS NOTIFICATION


Date of notification 03 July 2003

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