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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Charles Dickens, Mr Nightingale’s Diary and Malvern
DID you know the world-famous 19th-century English novelist Charles Dickens once wrote a play about the Malvern Water Cure?
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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 ...