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Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal itemsRare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt collar worn by the writer when he suffered his fatal stroke in 1…
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economyThey were places of crushing hardship for the poorest people in Britain for centuries but a new report highlights how closely workhouses in Engla…
Dmitry Krymov, who fled Moscow after the Ukraine invasion, plans Dickens hybrid with UK and Russian actorsThe acclaimed Russian stage director Dmitry Krymov the winner of many of Moscow’s top theatre prizes before his exile due to public criticism of t…
Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort Over its 200-year history, its premises were cramped and overcrowded, bleak and bug-ridden. However, when the St Pancras workhou…
Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to Heritage at Risk Register alongside Gunpowder Plot houseCharles Dickens described it as an enormous, labyrinthine tavern that was “known far and wide” and famous for its stone statue of an animal “distantly …
Dickens was taken out of school aged 11 to work in a London blacking factory as his father sank into debtIt was an experience that ruptured his childhood but shaped his life’s work. Two hundred years ago, 11-year-old Charles Dickens was taken out of sc…