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The day Charles Dickens nearly died in horrific Staplehurst rail disaster Dickens spent his formative years in Chatham and holidayed in Broadstairs and Folkestone Updated Staplehurst rail crash engraving in London Illustrated News (Image: Public domain) Get the latest news and features from Kent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meS...

Updated: February 11, 2021, 12:35 pm Charles Dickens has Scottish links including Aberdeen and the Highlands. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Charles Dickens is the author whose works and characters still resonate with audiences across the world more than 150 years after his death. And his surname has even entered our dictionaries and phrasebooks, while a variety of his more renowned creations – such as Mr Micawber, Ebeneze...

A STRANGE and frightening disease is killing people across the world. Medical opinion is divided and it’s very difficult to get an accurate picture of what is going on. The authorities are trying to avoid a panic, travel has been disrupted and fake news is rife. All this was happening when Charles Dickens picked up his pen in August, 1856, to write a letter to Sir Joseph Olliffe, physician to the British embassy in Paris. I recently discovered the letter during my research into the great writer’s lifetime of correspondence. In it, Dickens thanked the doctor for alerting him to an outbreak...

Remarkable chapters in the life of Charles Dickens who lived at Gads Hill in Higham until his death in 1870 Published: 06:00, 12 January 2021 Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens - but often his life, and death, proved to be as engaging as some of his most famous literary works. He had been writing the Mystery of Edwin Drood at his home of Gads Hill Place in Higham when he was hit by a stroke on the evening on June 8, 1870. Charles Dickens, far right, in front of his Higham home - today it is Gad's Hill public school. Picture: Gad's Hill School

Charles Dickens wrote about the diphtheria crisis of 1856 - and it all sounds very familiar Authorities were trying to avoid a panic, travel had been disrupted and fake news was rife Daniel Smith Charles Dickens (Image: Bettman Archive) GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY IN YOUR INBOXInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your ...