What did John Maynard Keynes multicoloured plaque do at 46 Gordon Square?

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The Story

# 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Standing before 46 Gordon Square, you're at the threshold of one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectual partnerships—this was the home where John Maynard Keynes lived from 1916 to 1946, transforming economic theory from this very address in the heart of Bloomsbury's creative ferment. Here, in the drawing rooms and study of this elegant Georgian townhouse, Keynes crafted some of his most revolutionary work, including the groundbreaking *General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money* (1936), which would fundamentally reshape how governments understood and managed their economies. The address became a salon of sorts, where Keynes entertained fellow Bloomsbury luminaries—artists, writers, and intellectuals—while simultaneously advising policymakers and attending to his role as an economist reshaping Britain's financial future. This location mattered not merely as a residence, but as the intellectual engine room where Keynesian economics was born, making it a pilgrimage site for anyone seeking to understand how the ideas conceived within these walls came to dominate global economic policy for generations to come.

Location

46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury

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