Director/PDMR Shareholding

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
27 October 2005





                   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ('the Company')

      Dealing by Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities  ('PDMR')

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc announces that Mr. David Ward, a PDMR, has today
exercised options to subscribe for 37,048 ordinary shares in the Company at
173.75p per share and has then sold 37,048 ordinary shares at 330p per share.







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