For more of all things London history, sign up for our new ... add the words 'THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP – IMMORTALIZED BY CHARLES DICKENS' in ornate gothic script to the timbered facade.

A five-story townhouse in London's Mayfair district was long owned by an Earl and was visited in the 19th century by Napoleon ...

"Gathered together over the past century and displayed in Dickens’s only surviving house in London, the Museum ... illuminate the life and works of Charles Dickens and the Museum’s role ...

After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

Heralded as one of the best—if not the best—novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens longed for fame from an early age ...

To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the Charles Dickens Museum in London is staging an exhibition of historic objects that shed light on the writer’s life and legacy Julia Binswanger Daily ...

The fair is populated as usual, by performers portraying characters from Charles Dickens and “the often ... and the “Dark Garden Corset Experience.” There are six aptly name British pubs ...

Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy ...

Prepare yourself for plum puddings, snowy Christmases, and bitterly cold London scenes aplenty in these gorgeous Charles Dickens film and TV adaptations. It’s unsurprising, then, that the author ...

The best walking routes from riverside ambles to scenic park routes in London. Despite the presents ... Starting at 48 Doughty St (now The Charles Dickens Museum, Dickens lived here from 1837 ...

A copy of David Copperfield read by Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition while stranded in an ice cave, and a handwritten manuscript of Oliver Twist are among the items marking 100 years of one of ..