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Charles Dickens at 200

In the build-up to the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, we'll be exploring the writer's life and relevance today through stories, videos, audio, galleries and more.

8 June 2017

  • Charles Dickens, author (1812-70)

    Charles Dickens dies - archive, June 1870

    Charles Dickens died on Thursday 9 June 1870 at his home in Gadshill in Kent. He was 58. Our resource examines how the Manchester Guardian and Observer reported the author’s death

20 January 2013

  • Charles Dickens

    Classic Dickens or Boz with a twist: it's all online

    The internet isn't only a great way of reinterpreting the classics, it's also a great way of accessing them, writes James Bridle

11 September 2012

  • Dickens' words of wisdom on weekends

    Letters: He was opposed to a parliament of the wealthy dictating how the poorer classes should behave on Sundays

14 May 2012

  • Liberal arts … Charles Dickens in 1860.

    Poem of the week: The Fine Old English Gentleman by Charles Dickens

    Carol Rumens: These satirical verses from the young author of Nicholas Nickleby pour scorn on his era's complacent Conservatives

19 April 2012

  • It was the best of tomes … the quintessential Charles Dickens novel

    Charles Dickens's novels are powered by archetypes that have seeped off the page and into our collective consciousness. But where to begin if you haven't yet encountered them between soft covers? Our fans' guide shows which of his novels assemble the strongest casts

16 April 2012

  • The novelist Charles Dickens

    Where the Dickens has Charles got to?

    Claire Armitstead: Charles Dickens's February birthday makes for an awkward bicentenary

15 March 2012

  • The study at Gad's Hill Place where Charles Dickens lived and died, near Rochester, Kent.

    One door opens to Charles Dickens fans as another shuts for makeover

    Gad's Hill Place in Kent will welcome literary pilgrims while Doughty Street in London closes for rest of bicentenary

27 February 2012

  • Bleak House

    Bleak House: The plot catches fire

    After an atmospheric but dilatory start, the novel closes with a blazing rush of events

22 February 2012

  • Great Expectations

    The Old Bailey in Dickens' time: Thomas Knight, indicted for returning from transportation

  • Charles Dickens

    The Old Bailey in Dickens' time: Alexander Hayes indicted for coining offences

21 February 2012

  • Tom all alone's

    Bleak House's locations – in pictures

    Dickens let reality feed his imagination and it's still possible to see many of the places that inspired him

10 February 2012

  • 200th anniversary of the birth of Dickens

    Weatherwatch: Dickens on a year of no summer after Krakatoa erupted

    David Hambling says the weather in Dickens is metaphorical and not just descriptive

8 February 2012

  • Charles Dickens gives a reading

    Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz

    Sophie Nield: He wanted to be an actor, his novels are full of theatre folk, and he performed readings of his books to rapt audiences. Did you know that Charles Dickens was obsessed with drama?

7 February 2012

  • Martin Rowson

    Martin Rowson on the return to Dickensian times – cartoon

    Martin Rowson
  • Charles Dickens at 200: Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and Gillian Anderson 7/2/12

    Dickens's 200th birthday celebrated around the world and on the web

  • The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum

    The Guardian Dickens walk five: Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum

  • Dickensportrait

    Charles Dickens at 100: How the Guardian marked the occasion

  • Charles Dickens's storytelling: Different perspectives on Bleak House

  • Charles Dickens at 200: A fiendishly difficult birthday quiz

  • The Charles Dickens 200th birthday quiz answers

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