A six-bedroom mansion in the upmarket London neighbourhood of Mayfair where exiled French emperor Napoleon III was entertained in the mid 19th century is up for sale. The grand five-storey Georgian ...
1783: The Great Siege of Gibraltar launched by France and Spain against the British colony during American War of Independence is lifted after 3 years and 7 months. 1812: Lord Byron makes his maiden ...
The first detectives reported to local London ... Dickens becomes good friends with a detective named Charles Frederick Fields, accompanies him on patrol, and proceeds to base Bleak House ...
These follicular insights are just the tip of the toupee at the Charles Dickens Museum's new show. "Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum" is the long but self-explanatory ...