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Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
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Dickens on Screen
The largest retrospective ever staged of film & TV works based on or inspired by Charles Dickens, ‘Dickens on Screen', is now showing at London’s BFI Southbank, and will soon embarking on a UK and world tour. Read more
British Council's global celebration
Spanning over 50 countries, the British Council is engaging audiences overseas with Dickens through a programme of events. Read more
Dickens and his beloved city
The Museum of London is running the first major exhibition on Dickens in the UK for over 40 years. 'Dickens and London' explores the intimate relation between Charles Dickens and the English capital until June 2012. Read more
Portsmouth celebrates son
Dickens’s hometown is organising a year-long programme of activities to mark the bicentenary of its most famous son. Read more
Charles Dickens Museum reopens
After a two-month closure for refurbishment, the Charles Dickens Museum - based at Dickens’s only surviving London home - is now open to enthusiasts from around the world. Read more
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
Victorian classics are revitalised and step onto modern stages
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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In His Own Write
The original manuscript of 'Great Expectations', currently on show at the Dickens and London exhibition, belongs to the Wisbech & Fenland Museum. Find out more about this piece of history and how it fetched up at the museum in Cambridgeshire. Visit website