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Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.

Dickens was just 11-years-old when he was forced to leave school in the autumn of 1823.

In Obedience Is Freedom, Jacob Phillips illustrates how too much freedom can often mean unhappiness. Men are not made to endlessly self-create.

To mark the 175th Anniversary of the opening of St Georges Cathedral in 1848, a walk has been organised for anyone who is interested in the history of the church, and the surrounding area of Southwark Bankside. The walk will start at St Georges Cathedral and end at St George the Mart...

Since 1979, Stephen Sondheim’s take on the Victorian myth about an exiled barber who pairs up with a cunning pie maker to seek revenge on the men who wronged him has delighted and enthralled audiences with its thrilling score, pitch black humor, and chaotic plot, but what is the real story behind this penny dreadful turned musical delight? Was there a real Sweeney Todd? Where did the story come from? And, most pressingly of all, what inspired Sondheim to spin this nauseating nightmare into got...

Is Dickens’s London a place, or a state of mind, or a bit of both? I used to ask myself the question all the time when I was literary editor of this periodical and our office in Doughty Street was a few doors down from the Dickens Museum, at no. 48, the house where he

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Jenny Colgan published her first book, Amanda's Wedding, in 2000.

British rare bookseller H M Fletcher is selling the first-edition copy, translated as The Alcoran of Mahomet