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Charles Dickens, Cleveland Street and the Workhouse

By Angela Lovely In Dickens & the Workhouse which has been published to coincide with the 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, eminent historian Ruth Richardson tells the story of how she...

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Let’s not forget what Dickens said about wealth and poverty

ChazD WOZ ERE 1829 By Leslie Carlyle It is a modern irony worthy of the man himself. A building which during his lifetime Charles Dickens would have happily seen ground to dust, was recently saved only...

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Cambridge historian and Oxford publisher under scrutiny over claim made in...

By News Reporters A book about Charles Dickens’ life in Cleveland Street written by a Cambridge historian and published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in February has been criticised after it failed...

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Charles Dickens’ many addresses in Fitzrovia

By Mike Pentelow Charles Dickens did many moonlight flits in Fitzrovia in order to dodge the creditors of his debt-ridden father, John, so has many local addresses associated with him. In later years...

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The young actress Charles Dickens kept in a love nest

By Sue Blundell Charles Dickens is a Hero for many people, but for some time now it’s been difficult to picture him as a Saint.  As a married man with a large family, Dickens found time to enjoy a...

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