Places Connected with Dickens and Dicken's World
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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
- 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 Dickenss 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 the Poverty UK page of WebLinks
Find out more about Charles Dickens
- Dickens's life
- Charles Dickens in The Times Digital Archive and Images
- Dickens's works, characters and quotations
- Places connected with Dickens and Dickens's world
Page last updated: 3rd December 2013