Browsing All posts tagged under »dickens«

Claire Tomalin & John Carey @ LSE

March 6, 2012

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This being the 200th anniversary of the birth of English national treasure Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870), there are more celebratory London events going on than you can poke a stick at. The study of Dickens’ work was once considered unfashionable in academic circles, and he was dismissed as a popular entertainer. How times have changed! On Friday […]

Bazalgette, Dickens, pop-up private members, & public tours: House of St Barnabas, Soho

June 4, 2011

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The House of St Barnabas in Soho is now offering tours on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, between 9am – 11am. Tours are free and last roughly 25 minutes.   The earliest recorded house on the site was built in the late 1670s, and the current house was completed in 1746, with the interiors finished ten years […]

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