The Charles Dickens Museum is the only surviving London residence of the great Victorian novelist and social commentator. It houses the world's most important collection of his writing and material related to his life.
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Today marks Charley Junior's birthday and as the day following #TwelfthNight was always a day of celebration in the #Dickens household! With a Twelfth Night cake of course! Read more: https://bit.ly/38OJAnI
So if you do need a reason for cake & afternoon tea... đđŤ
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Happy #TwelfthNight all! Anyone else superstitious and hard at work taking down Christmas decorations? Or are they helping #January feel a little less bleak?
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Cheers to the #NewYear! đť
We recently received a #donation of these six fabulous Dickens themed beer mugs. They were made in the mid-1950s by potters T.G. Green & Co of Derbyshire for the Bass-Worthington Brewery. The collectable mugs are characteristic mid-century pastel colours, and feature illustrations of classic Dickens characters like Little Nell, Mr. Pickwick and Mrs. Gamp.
Itâs unknown why Bass partnered with T.G. Green & Co to produce a set of Dickens collectable beer mugs, but it seems the collaboration was both convenient and fruitful as the two companies were in neighbouring towns, and T.G. Green and Co made many seriesâ of collectable ceramics for the brewery throughout the 20th century. Itâs also unknown who created the illustrations for the beer mugs, some of which are based on famous Dickens illustrations.
The beer mugs are a bright and cheerful edition to the museumâs ceramics collection, and good examples of how Dickensâs universal popularity survived well into the 20th century!
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Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year! Let's try and count our blessings as we look towards a more hopeful 2021...
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"I always shed a few tears watching this in the flesh and I shed them, too, seeing it online, which is a measure of its success."
Our favourite #review yet! Thank you Tim Walker and New European for âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸âď¸ Have a read! You have until 6pm GMT to get your tickets - https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol | #Dickens #DickensMuseum #LastShow #NewYearsEve #VirtualEvents
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/review-of-a-christmas-carol-6856750
Tim Walker reviews A Christmas Carol, streaming from the Charles Dickens Museum on December 31 I missed catching up with old friends over...
From our house to yours, wishing you all the very best for 2021!
#FestiveSeason #Christmas #Decorations #NewYearsEve #NewYear #DickensMuseum #SoundOn #Farewell2020 #Hello2021
"It was his own room, but it had undergone a surprising transformation..."
LAST CHANCE to experience #AChristmasCarol this #NewYearsEve 7pm GMT streamed straight to your #home from inside Dickens's first family home The Charles Dickens Museum
Book now - https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol
Join us for one last screening of #AChristmasCarol from Dickens's own home to round off 2020.
đď¸New Year's Eve (Thu 31st December), 7pm GMT.
đď¸Book now - https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol
Adapted and Performed by Dominic Gerrard
Trailer - Alex Hyndman
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Wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and restful long weekend đ
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #ChristmasDecorations #DeckedForTheSeason #TisTheSeason #MuseumFromHome #MuseXmas #HistoricHouse #Victorian #Piano #Music #Ivy #Decorations Image - Lewis Bush
Happy Holidays to one and all from all of us here at the Dickens Museum.
âWeâre absolutely crushed that we canât celebrate Christmas with you in person this year â it always gives us great pleasure to share the delights of Doughty Street and the joy of the festive season, a time that Dickens loved and that will forever be associated with him through his most famous work, A Christmas Carol.
I hope it wonât be too long before weâre able to re-open again and welcome you back! Until then, to paraphrase Dickens, we shall honour Christmas in our hearts and try to keep it all the year.â â Dr Cindy Sughrue, Director
#HappyHolidaysďťż #MerryChristmas #Dickens #DickensMuseum #ChristmasDecorations #DeckedForTheSeason #TisTheSeason #MuseumFromHome #MuseXmas #HistoricHouse #Victorian
Image â Lewis Bush
It's finally #ChristmasEve! Anyone prepping the #pudding ready for tomorrow? Worth prepping ahead if you'll be steaming for the full 4 hours! Recipe is easier than it sounds!
Head to our YouTube channel for a full video recipe on the original Christmas Pudding from food historian Pen Vogler. https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/charles-dickens-museum/the-original-christmas-pudding-recipe-cooking-with-dickens
#MuseXmas #MuseumFromHome #DickensMuseum #Christmas #ChristmasPudding #PlumPudding
Image - Lewis Bush
Scrooge to the rescue? It's all humbug, I tell you...
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #AChristmasCarol #ChristmasEve
BBC Entertainment News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-55368139
Charles Dickens's London home will host a special performance of A Christmas Carol.
This is how we're spending our #ChristmasEveEve! You can still join us for an UNABRIDGED #reading of #AChristmasCarol at any point today! Tickets on sale until 19:30 GMT | Book now: https://bit.ly/3pha0VE
Please note this is a LIVE reading, if purchasing tickets after it has begun you will be able to tune in at that time. Pay what You Can and enjoy as much or as little of the event as you'd like. Stave 3 kicks off at 17:30 & Staves 4 & 5 at 20:00 GMT đđ
Illustration by LĂŠna Gibert đ | #VirtualEvents #Dickens #DickensMuseum #MerryChristmas
In a Christmas week like no other, for anyone who needs a dose of #Dickens join us all day for a marathon #ChristmasCarol reading! Unabridged from 3pm GMT including intervals! Book now and we shall see you there!
https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-performance-a-christmas-carol-unabridged-read-by-dominic-gerrard
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #AChristmasCarol #DominicGerrard #VirtualEvents #Reading #Christmas #FestiveSeason
Grab a drink and join us for the first of many family Zoom calls this week! Only this one is gatecrashing the Dickenses as they discuss all the vital ingredients of a #Dickens family Christmas past, present and yet to come! ...less than 2 hrs to book!
https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-event-a-dickens-family-christmas
Grab a warming drink by the fire and join us for a family Zoom call with a difference to get into the spirit. Join the extended Dickens family as they share memories from generations past and discuss all the vital ingredients of a Dickens family Christmas.
Join us tomorrow to kick off your Christmas week with the Dickens descendants! In a year of Zoom fatigue this promises to be a family Zoom call with a difference to help you get into the spirit!
Dickens's great great grandson Ian Dickens will be hosting as family and extended family share memories from generations past, the vital ingredients of a Dickens family Christmas in the present and perhaps most importantly the family recipe for Smoking Bishop!
Tuesday 22nd December | 19.30 GMT | Book now: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-event-a-dickens-family-christmas
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #DickensFamilyChristmas #VirtualEvents #ZoomLife #Christmas #ChristmasWeek #Family
This is is folks! Last half hour to get your tickets for our 2pm show today! To paraphrase a little Dickens 'May we haunt your houses pleasantly' #Dickens #VirtualEvents #AChristmasCarol #Christmas
Book now: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol
Experience this celebrated production of A Christmas Carol online from inside Dickensâs London home. Filmed this year by candlelight, this beautiful, haunting, adaptation will follow Scrooge through the very rooms where Dickens lived and wrote.
Last chance before #Christmas to catch our very own #AChristmasCarol production filmed from within Dickens's own house tomorrow! Perfect treat to battle the misery!
Sun 20 Dec | 14:00 GMT | Followed by live Q&A w. actor Dominic Gerrard and special guests! đ #Dickens #DickensMuseum #VirtualEvents
Book now: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol
Experience this celebrated production of A Christmas Carol online from inside Dickensâs London home. Filmed this year by candlelight, this beautiful, haunting, adaptation will follow Scrooge through the very rooms where Dickens lived and wrote.
#AChristmasCarol was published #onthisday in 1843, with only a week to go until Christmas! Yet it sold out and was a huge hit with Dickens's readers and paved the way for the four further lesser known #Christmas stories. Interestingly, the story was completed in 6 weeks, 6000 copies were printed in the first run, all of which sold out in 6 days (by Christmas Eve)!
Do you have a favourite line from the story? Comment below! Ours has to be âYou may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!â - Scrooge to the Ghost of Marley
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #OTD #QuoteOfTheDay #Novella
Image: First Edition A Christmas Carol
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She's back! ....and yes it's very possible the housemaid seems to take one too many breaks to gossip with us! #CheeryBye
Last chance to book onto a virtual Christmas Housemaidâs Tour
Saturday 19th Dec | 11am & 4pm GMT | Book Now https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-christmas-housemaids-tour
#Dickens #VirtualEvents #DickensMuseum #Housemaid #Tours #MuseumFromHome
UPDATE: Due to Tier 4 restrictions the shop is now closed except for Click & Collect orders. Please shop online at https://dickensmuseum.com/pages/curiosity-shop
The #museum is closed but the shop is twinkling and looking festive!
Happy to announce our onsite shop at 49 Doughty Street is OPEN for last-minute gift purchases and click & collect orders every day, 10amâ5pm, except 25 to 28 December inclusive.
Just ring doorbell upon arrival đ
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Number 1 thing to do this week according to
Time Out London! #AChristmasCarol from within Dickens's home... Itâs the closest youâll get to spending the night in Dickensâs bedroom. Fancy it? You've got until 6pm GMT when ticket bookings for tonight close!
https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/things-to-do-in-london-this-week
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The best things to do in London this week, including music, theatre, art, live streamed events, poetry nights and winter walks, chosen by Time Out's critics.
As London is now in Tier 3 and sadly we canât let you all in for a festive meander around Dickensâs home we decided weâll do our best to bring more of the house in all its splendour straight to you. Weâve worked hard decking the halls and dressing up every corner for the festive season. Soon itâll all be taken down and weâre gutted to not have visitors at this special time of year which is usually a highlight for us just as much as for you! So weâll be doing our best to bring you sneak peeks of the Victorian fayre through our social media channels! #StayTuned
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #ChristmasDecorations #DeckedForTheSeason #TisTheSeason #MuseumFromHome #MuseXmas #HistoricHouse #Victorian #TheLittleThings #Details #VictorianHouse #Grade1Listed
Image - Lewis Bush
In just under 24 hours join us for the premiere of our very own 'A Christmas Carol' performed and captured from the very depths and corners of Dickens's home performed by the incredible Dominic Gerrard and of course with the help of everyone's favourite puppet Scrooge! Here's a peek at what you're in for đ
Book now at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-show-dominic-gerrards-a-christmas-carol
#AChristmasCarol #Theatre #Dickens #DickensMuseum #Christmas #TrailerLaunch #Scrooge #VirtualEvents #BookNow
First of our Christmas #HousemaidTours this evening for anyone who needs a little cheering up! Still time to book for a Victorian house tour and a gander at Dicken's home dressed for the season! Plus lots of gossip from the housemaid...
Tuesday 15th December | 7pm GMT | Join us from anywhere in the world!
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #VirtualEvents
Book now https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-christmas-housemaids-tour
As London moves into Tier 3 from Wed 16 December, we will sadly once again be closed to visitors until further notice.
Please bear with us as we get in touch with general admission ticketholders asap. In the meantime, why not book onto our wide range of virtual events for the festive season so we can still bring a little #Christmas cheer straight to you!
Book now for tours, performances & much more https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events
Image: Dominic Gerrard and Puppet Scrooge from Dickens Museum's #AChristmasCarol streaming 17th, 20th and 31st December followed by live Q&A.
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If you missed it last year catch #BritainsFirstChristmas today midday on @BBCTwo for a fix of Dicken's house at #Christmas and some of our favourite festive objects from the collection including original John Leech illustrations from #AChristmasCarol!
#Dickens #DickensMuseum #Filming
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cfnr
Gareth Malone and Karen Gibson reveal how Christmas was banned here in the 17th century.
Join Dickens's great great great granddaughter to discover what Christmas was really like in the 19th century and find out how #CharlesDickens and his own family celebrated #Christmas this weekend! Sunday 13th December | 5.30pm GMT via Zoom
Book NOW: https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/virtual-talk-dickens-and-christmas-by-lucinda-dickens-hawksley
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Join Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and discover what Christmas was really like in the 19th century. Find out how Charles Dickens and his own family celebrated Christmas, and how Dickensâs stories helped to influence the way we celebrate today.
We recently received a #donation of this lovely early 20th century drawing of the Pickwick Room at the George and Vulture pub in London by Earnest Coffin.
The George and Vulture is an 18th century pub just off Lombard Street in the City, and it was frequented by Dickens as a young man. In fact, he liked the place so much, he mentioned it about 20 times in the #PickwickPapers and named it as the usual meeting place of Mr. Pickwick and his friends.
This connection with The Pickwick Papers inspired the creation of the âPickwick Roomâ at the George and Vulture, with its many Dickens themed artworks and portraits that you can see in the drawing. The artist, Ernest Coffin, was a skilled architectural artist who drew and painted many London landmarks. He is most famous for his bright and cheerful railway posters in the 1920s and 1930s.
#DidYouKnow The success of the Pickwick Papers inspired the creation of many real life Pickwick clubs around the world, including the City Pickwick Club which was founded in 1909. Fittingly, the City Pickwick Club held their inaugural dinner at the George and Vulture, and they still holds their yearly meetings there today.
Many thanks to Harrison Goldman from Dawsons Auctions for helping facilitate the donation!
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Harrison Goldman Dawsons Auctioneers & Valuers
Episode 1 of the new #ArtAndStuff podcast is here and its on everyone's favourite story the Dickens #LostPortrait! Listen now! đ
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Taking a closer look at some of the most fascinating stuff inside our museums. From bits of buried treasure to iconic portraits to outlandish furniture, what do these things say about us? Each episode, we hear from a range of people who share their expertise and passion, revealing the incredible sto...
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Thank you to all our wonderful opening weekend visitors! If you're visiting us this week or in the coming weeks and months here's a look at what you can expect! If you have any questions or concerns please do ask... #Welcome #WelcomeBack #DickensMuseum #Reopening #BookNow
It's been an incredibly tough road but we wouldn't have gotten through without your support. Thanks to all your very generous donations via JustGiving and offline donations we have raised a hugely humbling ÂŁ42,000+. However, as the pandemic continues and countries world wide continue to struggle, so does our difficult road back to a new normal. If you are unable to visit in the near future or have the means to continue supporting us please do consider donating to our Just Giving campaign as we work towards our goal of ÂŁ60,000. With our heartfelt thanks, we look forward to seeing you all soon and in the meantime please do stay safe! See our progress and donate today at https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/DickensMuseumAppeal
This friendship album belonged to Maria Beadnell, the daughter of a wealthy London banker. It contains pictures, cuttings and verse from Mariaâs friends and suitors. It also contains the earliest known examples of literary work by Charles Dickens, written when he was about 18 years old. Dickens wrote four original poems for Maria. His friend (and future brother in law) Henry Austin illustrated one with a âpop upâ picture of a woman at a window that included a moveable pane of glass. Thanks to a grant from the #NationalManuscriptConservationTrust, we have been able to repair the album! Fixes included repositioning and sewing to re-attach loose pages, bookmarker ribbons and the pane of glass in the pop up window. Check out the whole conservation process and incredible transformation as undertaken by paper conserver Ann-Marie Miller of @codexconservation! #Dickens #DickensMuseum #Collection #ConservationInAction #FridayFeeling
Officially signing us out of #DickensReadsDickens is a newer generation of Dickens - Dickens's great great great great grandson Eddie in all his charm! We sincerely hope you've enjoyed the series and that it has provided a welcome distraction in these difficult times! Please do comment below as we'd love to hear about your favourites and what they've meant to you all. And fear not we've got heaps more exciting content coming your way over the next few months! #Dickens #DickensMuseum #LockdownLife #MuseumFromHome #MuseumAtHome #Readings #TinyTim #AChristmasCarol #GodBlessUsEveryone #SundayVibes
In our final edition of #DickensReadsDickens, Christopher Whinney Dickens's great great grandson brings us arguably the most haunting of all Dickens scenes with the murder of Nancy from Oliver Twist. We hope you've enjoyed this series by all the wonderful members of the Dickens family who have gotten involved. And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #OliverTwist #Dickens #DickensMuseum
In our latest #vlog, bookseller Ben Maggs shares with us the wonderfully tragic tale of the most valuable, luxurious, book bindings of all time. The story of these ill-fated bindings features gems, skulls and guest appearances from momentous historical moments including the Titanic! Maggs Bros. #BeautifulBooks
Clare Caswell, Dickensâs great great great granddaughter treats us to Chapter 2 of Oliver Twist and the infamous âPlease Sir I want some moreâ! Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #OliverTwist #PleaseSirIWantSomeMore #Dickens #DickensMuseum
Brian Forster, Dickensâs great great great grandson provides us with the delight of 'The Election at Eatonswill' from Chapter 13 of The Pickwick Papers. Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #PickwickPapers #Dickens #DickensMuseum
Sharing a message on behalf of the Dickens family from lockdown who had hoped to be attending wreath laying services at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey today in honour of their ancestor Charles Dickens. #Dickens150 Concept, script and edit by Ian Dickens 'Isolation' - Written and performed by Michael Dickens
Images from the expansive Dickens Museum collection along with quotes and other stunning graphics were worked into a sound and light installation and was projected onto Westminster Abbeyâs iconic West Towers over the weekend. The projection from Saturday evening was created by light and sound specialists, Luxmuralis, in collaboration with the Charles Dickens Museum and Westminster Abbey. The work is rich and vivid, saturated in colour and dense with visual effects set against a stirring soundtrack which builds to form a dramatic and poignant tribute to the writer. It features illustrations, quotes and a new colourised photograph of the author taken from the exhibition âTechnicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickensâ which will launch at the Charles Dickens Museum as soon as it is able to re-open. Created by Luxmuralis Artwork by Peter Walker Sculptor Music by David Harper Composer In Collaboration with Westminster Abbey | #Dickens150 #Dickens #DickensMuseum See the full story here - https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/dickens-life-and-legacy-commemorated-150-years-on
Marion Lloyd, Dickensâs great great granddaughter brings us another all too real and relevant extract in the form of smallpox and quarantine in Bleak House. Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #BleakHouse #Dickens #DickensMuseum
We are very excited to be revealing a newly colourised image of Charles Dickens ahead of the 150th anniversary of his death next week. The specatacular full colour photograph has been colourised by London based portrait photographer Oliver Clyde following significant research into original photo sessions, Dickensâs clothes and accessories and the complexion and skin tone of his descendants. The image shows Dickens in 1859, aged forty-seven, with a warm expression, looking directly at the camera and sporting a bright yellow, green and blue Clan Gordon tartan waistcoat, over a brilliant white shirt, with light-coloured trousers, a textured navy jacket and a bow tie. It is the first in a suite of vivid new colourised portraits that will feature in major new exhibition, Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens, to be opened at the Museum as soon as COVID-19 allows. Find out more and see the image in all its glory at https://bit.ly/2z1uiOy. #Exhibition #Dickens150 #150YearsOn #TechnicolourDickens #DickensMuseum #Portraiture #Tartan #WaistcoatWednesday #Transformation
One of our most beloved collection objects that represents #resilience to us is Dickens's hall clock from Gad's Hill currently in our entrance hall. A wonderfully animated object that has seen 150 years! We're very much missing this chiming at the moment! đ° #LondonHistoryDay #London #Resilience #Calming #HallClock #SoundOn #Dickens #DickensMuseum Historic England
This week weâre treated to the opening of Little Dorrit amongst an all too relatable quarantine by Dickensâs great great great grandson and actor Ollie Dickens. Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #LittleDorrit #Dickens #DickensMuseum
Find out what the museum means to acclaimed actor, writer, director, museum patron, friend and keen Dickensian Simon Callow and find out how you can help. Donate via https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/DickensMuseumAppeal
Dickensâs great great great grandson and renowned actor Harry Lloyd (Robin Hood, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, The Theory of Everything) brings us a much needed comfort read in the form of an extract on reading from âGreat Expectationsâ this week. Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #GreatExpectations #JoeAndPip #Dickens #DickensMuseum
In our latest #vlog marking current exhibition #BeautifulBooks, Alice Rowell of Maggs Bros. shares with us an advert from 1860 of Maggs Bros circulating library. Learn more about how these began in the 19th century in order to meet the increased popularity of books.
In for an extra special treat for this week's #DickensReadsDickens this week with a bumper 30 minute reading by Dickens's great great grandson and actor, director and producer Gerald Dickens. Go make yourself a cuppa and join us for the short story Mr Minns and his Cousin from Sketches by Boz. Please enjoy, share and join us for more every Saturday tea time! And if you'd like to donate to help the museum be here on the other side of this crisis, please do so at https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/news/appeal-for-support. #StayHomeStaySafe #MuseumFromHome #DickensReadsDickens #Reading #SketchesByBoz #Dickens #DickensMuseum
