Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a powerful story about poverty, justice, and survival in a broken society. Its theme is ...

Dickens was reacting to a recent amendment to Britain’s poor laws that restricted assistance to those who took up residence in official workhouses.

Charles Dickens was a terrific walker. Many nights he roved the streets of London with such insomniac vigor that he might still be striding along as dawn broke in the great skies overhead. Dickens ...

Charles Dickens was one of the most prominent English writers of the 19th century, publishing iconic works like Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. Now, fans have a chance to own one of the desks ...

The Charles Dickens Museum is celebrating its anniversary by displaying rare books, artworks, letters, artifacts and other unique historical objects connected to the 19th-century author.

Today when politicians are retreating from helping the poor and growth offers no panacea, we need another Dickens to inspire each of us to help.

Poor Laws of Dickens' time relegated the chronically poor to workhouses run like prisons where the incarcerated were treated like criminals, enduring hard labor and discipline. Recall Oliver Twist.

It’s a fun premise, though unevenly executed: Dickens must perform his 171st annual reading of “A Christmas Carol.” And he’s sick of it.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) Story of the Workhouse Blues The workhouse began with, I guess, good intentions, way back in 1388, with the Statute of Cambridge, designed to combat labour ...

Five years later, it became Stapleton Workhouse, an institution for impoverished citizens similar to the kind Charles Dickens wrote about in Oliver Twist. Victorian workhouses provided housing and ...

A workhouse was the setting for Charles Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist,” a story that follows an orphan as he navigates the abusive system.

A volume of unpublished letters exchanged between members of Charles Dickens’s family after his death has gone on display in London. The documents, on view at the Charles Dickens Museum in Kings ...