Did Dickens drive a man to suicide?
July 27, 2017 6:04 am Leave your thoughtsIt’s 180 years since Dickens completed his debut The Pickwick Papers, a comic novel whose hero lives in Clerkenwell. It... View Article
Tag Archive: Charles Dickens
Dickens Mystery
July 22, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsAs literary trivia fans will know, Charles Dickens’s final – and unfinished novel – was The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Dickens in love
March 11, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsCharles Dickens immortalised Clerkenwell in several of his novels, including Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge and Our Mutual Friend.
A Potted History of Smithfield Market | John Morgan
November 22, 2012 2:27 pm Leave your thoughtsLocal historian John Morgan delves into Smithfield’s long and bloody past, from grassy field to rambunctious meat market…