1143 results for 'Charles Dickens' across All Categories
Include non-exact matchesFrom the Blog
-
Blog PostChiming in the new year with DickensAt least one Christmas I am sure you’ve settled down and ended up watching or perhaps even reading A Christmas Carol. It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether (and...
-
Blog PostChiming in the new year with DickensAt least one Christmas I am sure you have settled down to watch, or perhaps even read, ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843). It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether –...
-
Blog PostFrom Dolly to DickensThe National Art Library has a new display of recent acquisitions outisde its doors. Come and visit!
-
Blog PostExperience the stories behind the books at the NALVictoria and Albert Museum I delivered a session a week later on the Corrected Proofs of Bleak House (Charles…
-
Blog PostA rhyme to suit your loveexample, from a similar time period, of a character trying to compose his own verse can be found in Charles…
-
Blog PostEvery donkey has his carte de visitePhotographs of royalty and celebrities such as the author Charles Dickens were also collected and swapped…
-
Blog PostDickens in the digital ageOn the 18 February, the ‘Deciphering Dickens’ team hosted ‘Dickens in the Digital Age’, an exciting online symposium that brought together academics and museum professionals working on a range of digital projects
-
Blog PostDeciphering Little Dorrit at the Dickens Universe, July 2018I’m the co-lead for one of the V&A Research Institute’s current projects, Deciphering Dickens. The Museum holds the manuscripts of many of Charles Dickens’s novels, plus the author’s working notes, printers’ proofs and early editions...
-
Blog PostInterview with the Workers about Immersive DickensI am tec Immersive Dickens was a prototype of a theatrical experience and an immersive audio tour bringing Charles Dickens to life for 14-17 year olds. It was created between the V&A, Punchdrunk and the Workers...
-
Blog PostLittle Dorrit ‘Transcribe-a-Thon’On Thursday 10 December, the ‘Deciphering Dickens’ project hosted a small group of Dickens, manuscript…
-
Blog PostVictoria and Albert’s Christmas Surprisesby Charles Dickens was first published in 1843.…
-
Blog PostHow to turn a Charles Dickens manuscript into an immersive theatre experience for teenagersHow might you bring a ‘difficult’ museum object to life to encourage teenagers to pursue their own creative endeavours? What if that difficult museum object was a Victorian manuscript set in a world and spoken...
-
Blog Post‘If In Doubt, Innovate’: Heal’s at the V&AWhat links Dickens with Dalmatians, the Bauhaus with Britain, and a famous four-poster with an infamous…
-
Blog PostSketching your own Victorian ChristmasArtists sought inspiration from Dickens’ Christmas books, the first Christmas cards and depictions of…
-
Blog Post‘Dangerously immersive’ Dickens‘Dangerously immersive’ is how Charles Dickens’s serialized novels were perceived at the time. In the 19th century, as Frank Rose describes in ‘The Art of Immersion’, novels were only just beginning to find acceptance in...
-
Blog PostDesigning a minimum viable experiencetheatre pioneers Punchdrunk Enrichment and creative technology studio The Workers to bring an original Charles…
-
Blog Post‘Rational Recreation’: Animal Products and the People of Bethnal GreenIt describes a visit to the Bethnal Green Museum in July 1872 and was probably written by Charles Culliford…
-
Blog PostHappy Birthday Mr Punch!He has been banned by councils for his violence, defended by Charles Dickens, introduced at court by…
-
Blog PostChristmas at the National Art Libraryeditions of arguably the best known Christmas story, A Christmas Carol held amongst our collection of Charles…
-
Blog PostFrom Artifice to Artefactrequests are as varied as our collections and we can be simultaneously working with a manuscript by Charles…
