Lucy Whitehead, Royal Holloway, University of London A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about ...

Author Charles Dickens is widely claimed to have "reinvented and reinvigorated" Christmas when he published A Christmas Carol in 1843. It tells the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is ...

Best known for his fiction writing, Dickens wrote a total of 15 novels between 1836 and 1870. His first was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, and his last was The Mystery of Edwin Drood, ...

ICE SKATING: London's festive ice rinks remain open throughout the Christmas period and into January. Somerset House, ...

ICE SKATING: London's festive ice rinks remain open throughout the Christmas period and into January, so why not have a twirl ...

King Charles was praised for pulling the 'perfect' pint of Guinness during his visit to mark the launch the Guinness Open ...

The finished pint was taken over to a machine and the King watched as the words ‘Merry Christmas’ and a holly sprig were ...

An iconic Christmas story that continues to resonate with my family and many others is Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic A Christmas Carol.

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it, and ...

For the village of Port Jefferson, the first weekend in December falls under "the best of times" as the 29th Charles Dickens Festival takes over Dec. 6-7. "The festival transforms our harbor-front ...

Turton Tower has looked like something from a Dickens novel this weekend, after volunteers worked to get it decked out for the Victorian Christmas event. Each year, the tower and hall open up their ...