Dickens works such as the Christmas stories were regularly turned into stage plays during his life, while today most people ...

Novels only ‘reinforced Victorian stereotypes’ of meek women to give readers what they wanted, says curator ...

Scholar of Charles Dickens who wrote a definitive biography and shone a light on the writer’s more neglected works ...

But would he have his Christmas turkey? Festive Fowl Dickens's association with turkey, specifically as a Christmas dinner centerpiece, didn't begin and end with Ebenezer Scrooge's selfless gesture ...

It is one of the single most startling visions in fiction: the door knocker of Ebenezer Scrooge shapeshifting into the visage ...

A bowl "brimming with sliced cucumber and onion soaked in vinegar", known as The Soak, was described by the museum as a ...

The new Mardi Gras Service runs from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., and lets visitors explore the Gulf Coast’s pleasantly ...

Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, N.Y. about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artistic director of the Grammy-nominated Sk ...

Sea swimmers brave the cold for mass festive dips Swims will be held in Eastbourne, Folkestone and across the South East on 26 December and 1 January. The proposed developments include 1,800 homes ...

Happening before Friday “A Christmas Carol”: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23; 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 26; and noon Saturday, Dec. 27, ...

From Dec. 27 through Feb. 9, the National Building Museum is hosting an indoor synthetic ice-skating experience to keep the ...

Lee Latchford‑Evans found fame with 90s chart-topping group Steps, but has since become a star of the stage and is now ...