The CFP for Dickens Day 2026 is live! We warmly invite proposals linked to this year’s theme of “Dickens and family” (both in his life and work). The deadline is 15 June, and the day itsef will be on Saturday 10 October at Senate House, London. All are welcome!
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'AI boosters...think that when people write they are directly transferring...ideas that exist pristinely in their heads directly into language. They see the effort of writing as something that gets in the way of this pure process. They see writing as a transparent process of transference'. 1/2
Masthead for The Standard of Freedom, which is presented as a ribbon curled around its moto. Its moto is: Political, Commercial and Religious Freedom, which appears on a banner in the middle of the title. This is volume one, issue one, for Saturday, July 1st, 1848 and was priced at four pence halfpenny.
Today's #MastheadMonday is The Standard of Freedom (1848-51). It was published by John Cassell as a family newspaper aimed at those with a reformist mindset, advocating 'Political, Commercial & Religious Freedom'. Digitised by the BL & free-to-view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/stand...
I’m in Dorset for an LDWA challenge event tomorrow. Very disappointed to find that the Macready-Dickens screen is not currently on display in The Sherborne! But happy to spot this mural nearby. For info on the screen research.kent.ac.uk/macready/ @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
What a wonderful day at the V&A / National Art Library talking about Dickens's Compostional Process and ways of engaging wide audiences with his material archive. @dickensnotes.bsky.social is on Bluesky now too 😀
Exhibit one: why so little attention to the travails of our national library?
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A slide of imperative verbs (addressed to himself? Or to the narrative?) gleaned from Dickens’s memoranda and notes as part of www.dickensnotes.com project and a session with the manuscripts themselves in the V&A National Art Library. Thanks to Anna Gibson and Adam Grener for a great workshop!
Let the Dickens House Party begin! At the Royal Hotel Ventnor with ‘The Dickens Boys’, Ian and Gerald, as inimitable hosts @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Feeling your guilt 🙄
Canadian Mountie: "Mr. Ness, I do not approve of your methods!"
Elliott Ness: "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."
Just going to leave this here
Just opened at the Charles Dickens Museum in London 🎉👏
Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland
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Agreed. Superb analysis.
Looking forward to seeing this in the new year! Charles Dickens exhibition to shine light on powerful women in author’s life www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
An old man in nightdress leans out of an upstairs window.
"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
A figure draped and hooded in a black robe points at a grave; an old man clutches his face in distress.
Green's image provides an intriguing reinterpretation of John Leech's original illustration, "The Last of the Spirits". Green is slightly more faithful to Dickens's text in representing Scrooge clutching at the Spirit's robe, but the miser's name is not evident on the gravestone as in Leech.
A figure draped and hooded in a black robe points at a grave; a startled old man wearing a night-cap ('tis his grave, after all), clutches at the figure's dark robe.
"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
Hurrah!👏
A ghostly figure in chains looms over an older man with a nightcap sitting beside a fireplace
"Marley's Ghost Appearing to Scrooge". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 3 of 7).
A door-knocker in the form of a very life-like man's face
"Not a knocker,--but Marley's Face!" Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 2 of 7).
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Congratulations 👏
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It is with deep sadness that the Institute of English Studies reports the death of Michael Slater, MBE.
Michael was a world-leading authority on Charles Dickens, who generously shared his enthusiasm, knowledge, understanding, and promotion of all things Dickensian.
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Rotting ship timbers at low tide on marshes North Kent coast
In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
A huge figure in Dickens Studies, his contribution to the field over the last half century is unsurpassed. @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social has lost a champion.
