Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens

Film, TV & Radio

Retrospectives, new adaptations and more to hit big and small screens around the world

Literature & Education

Inspiring new generations and discovering talent through Dickens

Exhibitions

Dive into Dickens’s world, his work and the places he loved

Theatre & Performing Arts

A Christmas Carol performed by Dominic Gerrard at the Charles Dickens Museum

Festivals & Outdoors

Gathering together to celebrate a very special birthday

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Injustice breeds injustice

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!

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Literature & Education

Dickens believed that enriching people’s life with knowledge and enjoyment of the arts was key to building a fair society and creating opportunities. Dickens 2012 is committed to following Dickens’s educational mission by supporting learning activities around the world, from teachers’ conferences and family workshops to creative writing master classes and writing competitions.

Charles Dickens on Tour: The Belfast Public Readings

This special exhibition tells the story of the great author's three Belfast reading tours, in 1858, 1867, and 1869.

Dickens and the Grotesque

International conference exploring 'the grotesque' in the fiction of Charles Dickens and other European novelists

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Coming up

The Dickens Connection

Saturdays in Summer 4.30pm
Highgate West Cemetery, Swains Lane, London, N6 6PJ

In Celebration the Dickens bicentenary this guided tour gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of Charles Dickens by visiting the graves of his wife Catherine, parents John and Elizabeth, sister Frances, brother Alfred and several of his friends and associates buried in Highgate’s West Cemetery.

Saturdays - 4.30 pm.

Tickets : Adults £7 - students £5 (with student card)

To book please call the Cemetery on
020 8340 1834 - during weekday office hours.

Speak Up!

Spring 2012
USA

High Schools across the US are launching ‘The Charles Dickens Oral Interpretation Contest’. Two $1,500 prices and a trip to London will be up for grabs for the best declamatory skills! Registration must be completed by 16 January 2012.

Talk: Introduction To Charles Dickens And His London

Tuesday 3rd July, 4.30pm to 6 pm
George In The Strand (opposite The Royal Courts Of Justice)

Talk: Introduction To Charles Dickens
And The London Of His Time
This Talk will discuss the main aspects of his life, from youth to old age. The second part will
illustrate how London appeared in his time, with particular emphasis on The Strand, Covent Garden
Fleet Street and The Old Bailey.
Price: £7, Concessions £5.