A Thousand Blows — Steven Knight on his Victorian bare-knuckle fighting series
Anyone writing stories set in Victorian London must reckon with its greatest chronicler: Charles Dickens. British ...
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Mapping The London Of Sherlock Holmes
So states Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League. The Master Detective claims to be an accomplished orienteer, able to ...
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Rags to riches: ‘Oliver!’ movie set listed for $3.6 million
The London mill starred as Fagin’s lair in Oliver! – the Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel ...
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Famed Dickens Festival Returns to Downtown Riverside Next Week
The celebrated Riverside Dickens Festival will return to downtown Riverside next week, boasting entertainment reminiscent of Victorian-era London and the life and times of author Charles Dickens. Most ...
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Surprising History of Victorian Era Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating ... key milestones and challenges faced by the London Metropolitan Police—from Charles Dickens’s ride-alongs to the advent of ...
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The former grain mill stood in as the derelict home of Fagin, played by Ron Moody
A London penthouse in a converted warehouse that was featured in the 1968 film “Oliver!” has hit the market for £1.85 million ...
How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
Valentine's Day evolved from handmade tokens to mass-produced cards during the Industrial Revolution, creating "manufactured ...
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Dickens Tourism In London Has Been A Thing Since Victorian Times
But the proprietor's genius idea was simply to add the words 'THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP – IMMORTALIZED BY CHARLES ... London tradition. Late Victorian newspapers dubbed literary tourists 'The ...
Map shows number of TB cases in your area amid London surge of 'Victorian' illness
Nearly 2,000 Londoners were diagnosed with TB last year, making it the UK region with the highest number of diagnoses. These ...