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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters, including A Christmas Carol’s Ebenezer Scrooge.

 
10 January 2018 1

David Copperfield and other amazing caulbearers in fiction

David Copperfield, Hamlet and Danny from The Shining are all caulbearers in fiction, explains CLAIRE BARRAND

 
18 September 2017

What inspired Charles Dickens, the man who invented Christmas, to write A Christmas Carol?

Guest writer HEATHER ANDOLINA looks at Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and the upcoming film, The Man Who Invented Christmas

 
22 December 2016

A Christmas Carol: Being a Ghost Story of Shrewsbury

PHILIP DAVIES reveals a chilling real-life ghost story linked to George C Scott, A Christmas Carol and Shrewsbury

 
21 December 2016

30 things you never knew about BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas

RICHARD PHILLIPS-JONES unearths some facts on the production and locations of a much loved British TV institution.

 
14 December 2015

Who “invented” the Christmas Ghost Story?

BARRY McCANN takes a look at the traditional English Christmas Ghost Story

 
17 September 2013 1

Betsey Trotwood And The Vampires

HOWARD JACKSON says the Betsey Trotwood Pub in Clerkenwell is a perfect fit for the launch of two new vampire books

 
25 December 2012 2

A Christmas Carol (1910) Full Movie VIDEO

Wanna see a silent version of Christmas Carol made by the same people who made the first Frankenstein film?

 
24 December 2012 2

Scrooge (1935) Full Movie VIDEO

Lots of versions of A Christmas Carol, but have you seen the first sound version - Scrooge (1935)?

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