He wrote in his will "that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb... I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works...". Dickens died at ... demanded that ...

When his father was called to London again to be a clerk in the Naval Pay Office, the elder Dickens amassed so much debt that the entire family—except for Charles and his older sister Fanny ...

A new exhibition celebrates 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum. Behold! Dickens with a moustache! What do we reckon? "A hideous disfigurement," was the verdict of the author's friend and ...

DID you know the world-famous 19th-century English novelist Charles Dickens once ... a boarding house adjacent to which the Abbey Hotel was built in 1848, and Dickens would take a room there ...

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint.Alyson ...

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the ...

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh ...

The lifelike funeral effigy head of King Henry VII, which is part of his tomb at Westminster Abbey, is often attributed to the Italian Renaissance sculptor Pietro Torrigiano Credit: Paul Grover ...

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh ...

For hundreds of years historians have marvelled at the effigy of King Henry VII for being both lifelike and beyond the ...