Walking Charles Dickens's London (4K)

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Walking the London streets of Charles Dickens from Southwark over London Bridge through the City of London, Clerkenwell to Bloomsbury. Support my channel on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers This Charles Dickens London Walking tour starts in Southwark where Dickens lived as a child while his father was held in Marshalsea Prison on Borough High Street. This influenced much of his writing, most notably Little Dorrit. There are also multiple references to character in The Pickwick Papers around Borough. After stopping by The George Tavern where Dickens used to drink we cross London Bridge which is mentioned in multiple Dickens novels - most strikingly in Oliver Twist, we walk through the City of London, The Magic Lantern, visiting various locations mentioned in the works of Charles Dickens including St Peter's Cornhill, The Guildhall, The Bank of England, Mansion House. We also look for the site of the first address the Dickens family stayed at on Wood Street when they arrived from Chatham. From here we go via St Bartholomew's Hospital, site of the Fortune of War pub (A Tale of Two Cities) before going to Bleeding Heart Yard (Little Dorrit), Saffron Hill (Oliver Twist) and finishing at The Dickens Museum in Doughty Street. Readings Little Dorrit The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Oliver Twist Tavistock Square Dickens House https://youtu.be/eD4L-Ic3FTY?si=jZ1l3IC_RHkEl4pm&t=290 Sources: The Magic of Dickens’s Southwark, Dickens Society Blog https://dickenssociety.org/archives/2219 Dickens’s ‘Magic Lantern’ self-guided walk map https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Things-to-do/dickens-magic-lantern.pdf Charles Dickens' characters https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/dickens-characters-n-q.html Music Farewell in the Battlefield - Ruiqi Zhao fading into blue - Shuta Yasukochi Alluvion - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Caterpillar - Johannes Bornlof courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com https://share.epidemicsound.com/ftphix (affiliate link) Over the Meadow, Over the Stream - Alan Rogers Thanks to my supporters on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers Please subscribe for regular videos: http://bit.ly/1EJjIB8 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1qvhkPMbF703QHR8qj8og/join #londonwalk #londonhistory Maps: Open Street Map “© OpenStreetMap contributors” using data available under the Open Database Licence Image Credits Portrait of Charles Dickens as retro stencil illustration with distressed grunge texture isolated on transparent background By HTGanzo Adobe Stock LICENSE TYPE Standard Marshalsea prison, Southwark, London, 18th century W. P. - Edward Walford, "Southwark: High Street," in Old and New London, Volume 6, 1878 Public Domain File:Marshalsea prison, London, 18th century (3).jpg Created: The caption states that this is the Marshalsea in the 18th century, which would make it the first Marshalsea (14th century – 1811). The second existed 1811–1842. The image was published in England in 1878 Artist's impression of Charles Dickens, forced to work in a factory when his father was sent to the Marshalsea Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse. Charles Dickens is here shown as a boy of twelve years of age, working in a factory. Public Domain w:Fred Barnard, died 1896. - “The Leisure Hour”, London. More information here. File:Dickens-at-the-Blacking-Warehouse.jpg Created: 1 January 1904 _________________________________________________________________________________ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers My shop: https://teespring.com/stores/the-lost-byway My Books: Welcome to New London https://amzn.to/3LTK9Rv This Other London http://amzn.to/2zbFmTd Audiobook & Kindle: http://amzn.to/2xLGb8s Blog: The Lost Byway: http://thelostbyway.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fugueur Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thelostbyway/ Make a donation to help support the channel https://paypal.me/JohnRogersLondon - many thanks! Shot in 4K on a Olympus OM-D EM-1 mark 2 with audio recorded with a Rode Wireless GO My Walking kit (amazon affiliate link - I earn a small commission on purchases) https://amzn.to/2Xky2UA