From Scrooge to Oliver Twist, these 15 best adaptations based on Charles Dickens' books are movies Victorian era fans need to ...

The notion that people who get government benefits should prove that they deserve them, ideally through paid labor, is now centuries old. This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in ...

The Company of Ten is set to bring a fresh adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations to the Abbey Theatre in St Albans.

The prolific Charles Dickens had an imagination fired by the “marvelousness of everything.” ...

Three in ten children in the UK today are living below the poverty line, an appalling statistic that is at the heart of this ...

Dickens (1812-70) was a busy man whose brain ... of the most celebrated and prolific English writer of the Victorian era—or indeed of any era, barring that of Shakespeare more than two centuries ...

Period dramas may be steeped in history but they never get old, judging by their continuing popularity. From traditional ...

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“Victorian London was a violent place. Dickens deliberately set the scene in Smithfield, where animals got killed in [huge] numbers every day,” he says. “I remember a paragraph [he wrote ...