A Christmas Carol at the Charles Dickens Museum 2020 | Trailer2
The housemaid is back on a break...join us!
Join the housemaid for a Christmas tour this evening....
Letter to the Landlord of 48 Doughty Street | At Home With Dickens
An Introduction to Dickens at 48 Doughty Street
At Home With Dickens | Simon Callow
Charles Dickens Museum | What To Expect!
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...
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Charles Dickens Museum | COVID-19 Appeal Update 2020
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
Conserving the Collection | Repairing a Pop-Up Window
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!
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Dickens Reads Dickens | Eddie Dickens
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!
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Dickens Reads Dickens | Christopher Whinney
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
The Ill Fated Binding of âThe Rubaiyatâ by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
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!
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Dickens Reads Dickens | Clare Caswell
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
Dickens Reads Dickens | Brian Forster
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
Dickens Family Message | #Dickens150
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
Dickens's 150th Anniversary Marked at Westminster Abbey
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
Dickens Reads Dickens | Marion Lloyd
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
New Technicolour Dickens Image released
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.
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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°
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Dickens Reads Dickens | Ollie Dickens
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
Dickens Reads Dickens | Harry Lloyd
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
Circulating Libraries and the Beginnings of Maggs. Bros
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.
Dickens Reads Dickens | Gerald Dickens
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