charles dickens

13 min read 2022-05-27 11:09:00

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For many people — if not most of us — money is mysterious. One second you just got paid and feel like a billionaire, the next moment you feel

1 min read 2022-04-14 13:30:00

Tudor Allen, archivist at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, is giving an illustrated talk this month on the streets that influenced the

5 min read 2022-04-03 16:25:00

Dickens on Railways – A Great Novelist’s Travels by Train DEALS Amazon £11.62 VIEW Published in November 2020 and edited by Tony

1 min read 2022-02-20 02:38:36

Cover of Tom Veitch Magazine #1 (1970). • RIP Tom Veitch, a writer with whom I almost created a comic-book series in the 1990s. Things didn’t

3 min read 2022-02-15 14:00:15

Opposite Southwark tube station is a tall pole, and on top of the pole is a dog and a bowl, and they are there in memory of Charles Dickens. How so

2 min read 2022-02-11 02:26:40

Enlarge / Section of the so-called "Tavistock letter," written by Charles Dickens in his idiosyncratic shorthand. The crowd-sourced

4 min read 2022-02-04 05:08:00

Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens. 1865. 801 pages. [Source: Bought]I first read this one in 2011. I don't know why it took me over a decade to

3 min read 2022-01-11 03:51:09

The Sunday shows this week were like all the worst parts of a Dickens quote. You know, the one from A Tale Of Two Cities about the best of times and

3 min read 2022-01-11 01:48:09

David Charnick was recently asked to help historian Dan Snow with an episode of History Hit podcast, based around David’s walk “A Dickens of a

3 min read 2022-01-07 15:06:35

Gamp, rainshade, bumbershoot … or simply an umbrella. Telford Vice | The Wanderers THERE’S much to be gleaned from an umbrella. Particularly on

7 min read 2021-12-28 23:57:00

A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. 1843. 96 pages. [Source: Bought]First sentence: MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about

3 min read 2021-12-25 12:00:00

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol has long been the holiday special I most wanted to get my mitts on. For some reasons or other it has eluded me for years,

4 min read 2021-12-25 01:41:31

I pull this Christmas Eve message from the archives, first posted on December 24, 2010 Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Festive

1 min read 2021-12-23 02:00:16

Welcome back, everyone! Settle in! It’s the last Links before Christmas. If you’re celebrating, I hope it’s lovely and exactly however you

5 min read 2021-12-20 21:51:25

’Tis the season to rehash one of the most famous medical mysteries of canonical literature, plucked from the pages of what must be one of the most