Rita Ora has suggested Charles Dickens would have been a fan of her modernised take on his classic Oliver Twist tale, despite the film being panned by critics. The 30-year-old singer stars as Dodge, a gender-switched version of the Artful Dodger in the newly released Twist, which sees Rafferty Law in the titular role. And in … Read more
A former Green councillor who scrawled ‘Dickens racist’ on wall of museum dedicated to 19th century author pleaded not guilty in court Ian Driver, 63, was arrested for criminal damage after graffiti was plastered on the outside of The Charles Dickens House Museum in Broadstairs, Kent, on Saturday night. Driver – who was a Green … Read more
A former councillor has been charged with criminal damage after the words ‘Dickens Racist’ were scrawled on a Charles Dickens museum. Ian Driver, 63, of Broadstairs, Kent, was arrested today and charged with seven counts of criminal damage relating to an alleged offence in Broadstairs on Saturday June 13 and six in Broadstairs and Ramsgate … Read more
Charles Dickens’s great-great grandsons have revealed an unprecedented insight into what the writer really looked like because of their ‘uncanny’ resemblance to him. Museum historians have harnessed the striking likeness by imprinting Gerald and Mark Dickens’s complexions on to black-and-white portraits of their ancestor. The remastered pictures show the Victorian author with fairly tanned skin … Read more