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Baa Baa Brighouse

Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Great Expectations', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

Picture shows two skeins of yarn in shades of blue and white positioned diagonally. To the left of the yarn, stood on its end, is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The book is navy blue with a repetitive cream chandelier patter on it. To the left of the yarn is a Victorian style pale blue tin of tea.
Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of blue and white.
Picture shows an open A4 box containing two skeins of yarn in shades of blue and white. There is also a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The book is navy blue with a repetitive cream chandelier pattern on it. There is also a pale blue Victorian style tin of tea.
Picture shows a closed A4 box tied with gold ribbon.
#yarn#knitting#crochet
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Douglas E. Welch

All of the Original Illustrations From Charles Dickens’ Novels Are Available To View Online via My Modern Met [Shared]

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery has archived all of the original images featured in Dickens' work throughout his creative career. Dr. Michael John Goodman, who is also the creator of the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, had the idea to digitize the art from Dickens' novels during the COVID-19 lockdown.

“The world of Dickens illustration is beset with poor reproductions of the source material, so for this project, I have searched out what I consider to be some of the best editions that feature the original illustrations printed to a decent quality,” Goodman explains. After collecting and scanning the images, he even cleaned them up in Photoshop, so that they look as crisp as possible.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/22

#dickens #art #artwork #books #etching #dickens #charlesdickens #illustrations #history #author #shared

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The image depicts a lively street scene from a bygone era, likely the 19th century. In the foreground, three men are engaged in conversation. The man on the left is dressed in a striped vest, brown trousers, and a top hat, holding a walking stick. The man in the middle wears a dark suit with a top hat and a cane, while the man on the right is in a green coat and white trousers, also with a top hat. A small white dog stands nearby. To the left, a man in a straw hat and suspenders stands next to a large haystack, with boots and other items scattered on the ground. The background features a two-story building with a red roof, adorned with laundry hanging out to dry. A woman in a red dress is visible through a window on the second floor. The building has a sign that reads "Peach Office." The street is bustling with activity, including a man carrying a large sack and another walking away. The scene is rich in detail, capturing the essence of daily life in a historical setting.
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Baa Baa Brighouse

Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'A Tale of Two Cities', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

Picture shows two skeins of yarn positioned diagonally in shades of red and dark blue. At the head of the yarn stood on its end is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The book is dark blue with a repetitive red knitting pattern on it. Behind the yarn is a tin of Victorian style tea. The tin is green with an ornate floral pattern on it.
Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of red and dark blue.
Picture shows an open A4 box contianing two skeins of yarn in shades of red and dark blue, a copy of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and a tin of tea.
Picture shows a closed A4 box tied with navy blue ribbon.
#yarn#knitting#crochet
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Graham Dunning
Just been to the Deventer Charles Dickens museum - with authentic Miss Haverhsham diarama.
Despite there being no connection between the town and Dickens, they have an annual festival here where people dress as characters from the books. Upstairs in the museum is a massive room full of Victorian period costumes.
Entry to to the museum is €2. At the desk the elderly woman who started the museum and built up the collection of ephemera and Dickens junk welcomes you.
#museums #Dickens #Deventer #weird #collecting
cluttered room with Victorian furniture and a mannequin in bridal wear, covered in cobwebs
library of only Dickens books with a mannequin in purple velvet Victorian suit
two mannequins in Victorian garms, behind: racks of Victorian period dress
#collecting
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Baa Baa Brighouse

Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Book Club - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Hard Times', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of the book and a tin of Victorian style tea.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

Picture shows two skeins of yarn positioned diagonally in shades of green. At the head of the yarn stood on its end is a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of Charles Dickens' Hard Times. The book is green with a repetitive horse pattern on it. Behind the yarn is a tin of Victorian style tea. The tine is green.
Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of green.
Picture shows an open A4 box containing two skeins of yarn in shades of green, a copy of the Penguin Clothbound Classic edition of Charles Dickens' Hard Times and a tin of tea.
Picture shows a closed A4 box tied with green ribbon.
#yarn#knitting#crochet
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Julie Howlin

In Tale of Two Cities, Dickens mentions “Husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil,” which is the earliest reference to potato crisps.

On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about Charles Dickens.

topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/

Topical Tens7th February: Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born on this date in 1812. 10 facts about Charles Dickens: He left school at 12 because his father had been sen...
#BirthAnniversary#CharlesDickens#Dickens
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Mal

#PublicArt. This is the best term for it, not statues or street art, because the public is involved, so you know you gotta think about the public response - intended and incidental - as well as the artist's intention.

Older public art is particularly interesting because of change. Mostly - but not always - the artist's intentions don't change over time, but the public's reaction certainly does.

#TrafalgarSquare is a good example. It was built 180 years ago or so. Later than you might think, but earlier than I expected. It commemorates a naval battle of the #NapoleonicWars, but it wasn't originally going to - they were going to call it #WilliamIV Square or something. The theme changed from #royalism to #militarism, but that change isn't visible in the statues.

After 1815 and before about 1880, the #BritishEmpire was mainly #India, the #WestIndies, #Ireland, and an archipelago of #navy bases dotted around the world. The #UnitedKingdom was figuring out how to deal with its #democratic deficit, so there were a series of reactionary governments that paradoxically passed #ReformBills to extend the franchise. There were #labour riots, and an #industrial boom, and huge cities - particularly #London, but also #Manchester, #Birmingham, #Liverpool, #Belfast - growing like galloping weeds over the countryside. This was #Dickens 's England. This was the time of #TheMakingOfTheEnglishWorkingClass.

So what did they mean at the time by building Trafalgar Square? It has #propaganda value. Lord #Nelson was a controversial figure in his own time, but I can imagine the Duke of #Wellington trying to link his own political fortunes to a safely-dead hero in the 1830s. The square was built with #parliamentary approval and funding, and with quite a lot of public subscription too - though what a 'public' means in that context isn't obvious. Probably wealthy #industrialists, the #techbros of the age, but I'm guessing.

Since it was built, more - but much smaller - naval commemorations have been added. So its original goals weren't forgotten, but extended - artist intentionality changing over time.

The #Suffragettes used Trafalgar Square extensively for protests. I think we can reasonably link their use of the square to the original political use of the square. It was built in an era of Reform Bills that didn't reform the vote for #women. They could hardly do better than to make their protest clear in a space which modeled the thing they were protesting about - a powerful, militarist, partly-democratic England that didn't include women.

#Labour also used Trafalgar Square for protests. One of my favourite photos is of #KeirHardy - the Keir who the current prime minister is named for - speaking from the base of #NelsonsColumn in 1908. You have to know about it, but Trafalgar Square is a labour monument.

And to this day, Trafalgar Square is a traditional rally point for demonstrations and protests. No important London protest or demo happens without going through Trafalgar Square.

This use of their commemorative art would be totally alien to people who funded its construction. They're more likely to have been the backers of the #PeterlooMassacre.

The square was famously sandbagged during the Second World War, to preserve it from being damaged, and I gather many Londoners at the time considered that to be symbolic of resistance and survival. So the art became invisible to the public, but people were still aware of it.

These days, Trafalgar Square is a landmark of London, in many ways as iconic and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. That might please its builders, but probably wasn't what they expected. It's also a rendezvous point, with its tube station and its buses. A gathering place. It hosts incidental modern art on the famous empty plinth.

Public art is inspirational. This is just Trafalgar Square - all the things I've seen give me the shivers when I think about how much embattled history is locked up in stone and bronze, under which people eat sandwiches, kiss lovers, wave placards, make speeches, and which get periodic paint douses, get stood on, relabeled and reinterpreted, dressed up and eventually pulled down.

Another time I'll write about other public art I've seen. #StPetersburg and #Moscow are rather heavy on such art, but there is so much important stuff to say about it.

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Michael Hancher

“The property was thrown into Chancery...where it remained for upwards of twenty years, until it terminated, as such suits usually do, in the absorption, by the costs of the respective attornies, of the whole of the funds in the honest and careful custody of the Court.” z.umn.edu/Chancery #Dickens

HathiTrustMen of the time. Biographical sketches of eminent living characters ... also biographical sketches of women of the time
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Toflj
Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia. In 1889 a messenger boy was found with money far exceeding his usual wages, and accused of stealing it; the investigation led police to discover a gay brothel at 19 Cleveland Street, frequented by several wealthy and important men (allegedly including Price Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne). The news became a national scandal, even leading to the building being renumbered to disguise its infamous past, before it was ultimately demolished.

Charles Dickens also lived on this street, and the Cleveland Street Workhouse influenced some of his stories.

Also pictured is the BT Tower, tallest building in London when constructed.

#London #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #Dickens
A quiet street in an affluent area of London; to the right, a row of older terraced houses. To the left, modern blocks of flats. In the background stands a large communications tower.
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Dope Old Person

It's morning, it's Friday, I am possibly working tomorrow so I won't get too excited about today.

Because my current knitting is tricky I've abandoned kdrama and am rewatching BBC #Dickens Bleak House. I don't remember too much of it! The characters are extreme in many ways. In all parts of Victorian England life.

I recall growing up in 1970s England the ideal was to be a very "ordinary" person and it's probably very good that now, 50 years on, we realise all people are diverse & different.

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