The film explores the Victorian era in England during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and its reflection in the works of Charles Dickens. It highlights the contrasts of the time, including ...

How Charles Dickens helped shape Christmas as we know it today If you celebrate Christmas, ... a historian of Victorian England and Charles Dickens' great-great-great-granddaughter.

The reserve comes as the eighth in the King’s Series – a programme to establish 25 large-scale national nature reserves across England by 2027 in celebration of Charles’ coronation.

Great Dickens Christmas Fair marks 40th year of transporting visitors to Victorian England. ... Fairgoers can experience recreations of the streets of London from the times of Charles Dickens, ...

Over the final two decades of his life, Dickens performed nearly 500 readings of his works for audiences across England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States.

Zadie Smith writes: I did everything I could to avoid writing my historical novel. When I finally started “The Fraud,” one principle was clear: no Charles Dickens.

But some of Charles Dickens' other Christmas books were even more popular in his time. Free outdoor concerts, ... On a south-of-England vacation, he'd toured the Cornish tin mines.

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.

James Thellusson is the author of “School’s Out: Truants, Troublemakers and Teachers’ Pets.” Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “Bleak House,” he invented the epic ...

The Dutch city of Deventer transformed Saturday into a pocket of 19th-century England, with 950 people in costumes bringing characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life.