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Nelson Street was once home to a dispensary, Primitive Methodist chapel, and a Victorian music hall where, in 1861, Charles Dickens gave readings of his works

The tutor on my exercise science course pointed me towards literature, and I began to read voraciously. It was the start of a love affair that led to my first novel

In his Channel 4 series, Full English, artist Grayson Perry travels around England in a white van searching for an answer to the question: “Is there a viable version of England and Englishness that will feed my soul?”

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

Until the mid-19th century in Britain, watching someone die was considered a form of entertainment. Indeed, this shared experience shaped the landscape of London and bound the city together.

Debates about what books students should be reading in high school reach a crescendo at the start of each school year.

South African stewards took a dim view when jockey Aldo Domeyer celebrated victory before the line on Charles Dickens in the Cape Guineas

The former Prime Minister has been spotted in the war-torn town of Bucha after receiving a personal invitation to visit the country from President Volodymyr Zelensky

Wilkie Collins had the longest writing career of any major mid-19th-century English novelist, writing short stories and novels from 1844 to 1889. Literary criticism, however, has traditionally seen him as only notable for his two mystery novels, The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868).