Dickens Fellowship Conference 2023 in London

Dickens Fellowship Conference 2023, London

July 26 - 29

Dickens, Law and Disorder

Wednesday 26^th July: Day of registration for the conference

Location: Dickens House Museum, 48 Doughty Street

guided walking tour 1

16.00 PM: Guided walking tour

Guided walking tour 2

Guided walking tour 3

Guided walking tour 4

The other walking group

Terrace at backyard Dickens Musem

17.30 PM: Registration at the Dickens Museum

Drinking in the backyard

Gathering in lecture room of Barnard's Inn

Thursday 27^th July: First day of lectures at Barnard's Inn

This is the place wher Pip from Great Expectation stayed with Herbert Pocket

Entranche to lecture room

At the entrance to the lecture room

Gathering at the lecture room 2

At the courtyard of Barnard's Inn

Lunch is served at the courtyard

Lunch is served

Lucinda Hawksley give a lecture

Lecture by Lucinda Hawksley

About Henry Fielding Dickens

Entance to Gray's inn

Gray's Inn

View of the pub 'Citte of Yorke'

Drinks were held in a pub after the lectures on July 27

Location:Citte of Yorke

Group picture of the participants

Thursday 28^th July:Group picture of all the participants

Lecture by Jeremy Parrot

Lecture by Jeremy Parrot

On censorship

wekcome sign Gad's Hill School

Saturday 29^th July: Coach trip to Gad's Hill and Rochester

Welcome to Gad's Hill School

welcomed by man in Victorian costume at the front door of Gad's Hill

At the front door of the house

Charles Dickens’ study room

Writing desk

The photograph on Dickens' writing desk

Close-up of photograph of Dickens sitting at his writing desk

Photograph of Dickens and daughters in the windowsill of his study

Photograph of Charles Dickens and family members

Pictures in the study room

Pictures on the wall of Dickens’ study room

Placard with photographs of the house and family with explanatory text

Explanatory placard about event in Dickens’ life are all around the school

presentation of Oliver Twist

Portrait of Charles Dickens with a quote from 'A Christmas Carol' beneath'

Another portrait of Charles Dickens

Miniature of Gad's Hill place

Miniature version of Gad’s Hill Place

Placard explanatory about the death of Charles Dickens

Placard on the death of Charles Dickens

View of the house from the garden 1

The garden surrounding the house

View on the house from the garden 2

Memorial plate on the wall outside with a quote from Dickens

Around the garden

Group photo in front of the house

Group picture of the participants of the tour

city view of Rochester

Next stop: Rochester

View of the city

View of the port of Rochester

The port of Rochester

Portrait of Charles Dickens on an outside wall

Dickens is everywhere in Rochester

Dress shop called 'Little Dorrit'

Dickens' Swiss chalet

Charles Dickens Swiss Chalet was moved to Rochester

Plate with information about Dickens' chalet

Blue oval plate with explanation about the chalet

Eastgate house in Rochester

Eastgate House

Features as ‘Westgate House’ in The Pickwick Papers and ‘The Nun's House’ in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Blue oval plate commemorating the Dickens-connection to Eastgate House

Restoration House - model for Satis House

Restoration House

featured as model for Satis House in Great Expectations

'Spire-less cathedrar'

Spireless cathedral

Featured in The Pickwick Papers and The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Rochester castle

Rochester castle

Features in The Pickwick Papers

Coffee House 'The deaf cat'

Coffee House The Deaf Cat

Named after an actual deaf cat owned by Charles Dickens