Charles Dickens
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Places connected with Charles Dickens
and events

Many of the sites in this section are from local councils or tourist organisations and give details of bicentenary events in their areas

• Charles Dickens Museum Dickens's home in London, now preserved as a historic house museum

• Museum of London, Dickens and London A major exhibition on Dickens's connection with London. Entry is by timed ticket only

• David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page, Dickens's London Map Click on places on the London map for details of connections with Dickens and his novels

• Portcities London, Charles Dickens Details Dickens's connections with the port of London. The page includes a very concise timeline of his life and works

• Dickens's Southwark "Charles Dickens has a long and deep association with Southwark, both personal and literary, and particularly with the area known as the Borough"

• Dickens in Richmond Upon Thames Describes Charles Dickens’s associations with the borough and how he used his local knowledge in his novels

• Dickensian Medway and Dickens 2012 Charles Dickens has a long association with Rochester and the Medway area

• Discover Gravesham Discover the connections with the area in Dickens's novels and view details of his house Gads Hill Place in Higham

• Charles Dickens's Birthplace Museum The house in Portsmouth where Dickens was born in has survived and is now preserved as a museum displaying the furnishings and style of the Dickens family. You can view a video giving a 'Virtual Guide' to  to Charles Dickens's Birthplace

Dickens's world

• British Library, Dickens in Context - Poverty and Wealth Video clips on poverty and links to sources on workhouses and more

• The Victorian Web - Charles Dickens Economic context, political history, social history, religion, gender matters, visual arts, science and more

• National Archives podcast - The real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors' prison "What were Victorian debtors' prisons really like and how accurate was Dickens' portrayal of them?"

• For links about poverty today, see WebLinks > Social Sciences > Poverty UK

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