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The Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth
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Charles Dickens Statue Unveiled in Portsmouth
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On Friday 7th February 2014 Charles Dickens' 202nd birthday, guests from across the world, renowned Dickens experts, members of Dickens' family, visitors and residents of Portsmouth gathered in Guildhall Square to witness the unveiling of the UK's first statue to one of Great Britain's greatest authors and Portsmouth's most famous son, Charles Dickens.
First Ever UK Charles Dickens Statue Unveiled in Portsmouth
February 7th 2014 saw the unveiling of the first ever UK statue of a Portsmouth literacy great, Charles Dickens.
Guests from America, renowned Dickens experts, and notably 40 members of the Dickens family, were in attendance.
One of the youngest members of the family, nine-year-old great great great grandson Oliver Dickens, played a part in unveiling the statue with Esha Abedin, also nine, from Charles Dickens primary school.
Professor Tony Pointon, chair of the Charles Dickens statue committee said: This is a wonderful day for Portsmouth.
When we had the idea 20 years ago we knew the statue had to be in his place of birth.
Finally after years of fundraising Charles Dickens and the city are both getting what they deserve.
Stage and screen actor Edward Fox and his wife Joanna David gave a reading, and were joined in the Guildhall Square by members of the Pickwick Cycle club on their trademark Penny Farthings.
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First Charles Dickens Statue Unveil in UK
This is the first Charles Dickens statue in the UK and was unveiled on Friday 7th February 2014, it is now situated in Portsmouth. The statue was made by sculptor Martin Jennings.
Throughout the video you will see footage of various guests speakers such as the mayor of Portsmouth, eventually the statue of Charles Dickens is unveiled. The first person to touch the statue was Dickens very own great great great grandson - Oliver Dickens
Fortunately I had the privilege to take photos of Oliver Dickens with Dickens statue.
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Places to see in ( Portsmouth - UK )
Places to see in ( Portsmouth - UK )
Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast, mostly spread across Portsea Island. It’s known for its maritime heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The dockyard is home to the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy, the wooden warship HMS Victory, where Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar, and HMS Warrior 1860. The Tudor ship Mary Rose is also conserved in a dockyard museum.
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, 70 miles (110 km) south-west of London and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Southampton. The city of Portsmouth forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Southampton and the towns of Havant, Waterlooville, Eastleigh, Fareham, and Gosport.
Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports. HMNB Portsmouth is considered to be the home of the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The city is home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission). The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at 560 feet (170 m). Nearby Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle.
Portsmouth F.C., the city's professional football club, play their home games at Fratton Park. The city has several mainline railway stations that connect to London Waterloo amongst other lines in southern England. Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover, handling around three million passengers a year. The city formerly had its own airport, Portsmouth Airport, until its closure in 1973. The University of Portsmouth enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world's best modern universities. Portsmouth is also the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Alot to see in ( Portsmouth - UK ) such as :
HMNB Portsmouth
Spinnaker Tower
HMS Victory
D-Day Museum
HMS Warrior
Southsea Castle
Blue Reef Aquarium
Mary Rose Museum
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Portsmouth City Museum
Portsmouth Harbour
HMS M33
Clarence Pier
Round Tower
Portsmouth Cathedral
Spitbank Fort
Eastney
Portsea Island
Domus Dei
Portsdown Hill
HMS Alliance
Stansted Park
Portchester Castle
Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower
Victoria Park, Portsmouth
Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum
Southsea Model Village
Cumberland House Natural History Museum
Farlington Marshes
Alexandra Park, Portsmouth
No Man's Land Fort
Fort Blockhouse
Fort Cumberland
Southsea Rock Gardens
Canoe Lake
Portchester, St Mary
Fort Widley
Stokes Bay
Genting Casino Portsmouth
Seagrove Bay
Creech Wood
( Portsmouth - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Portsmouth . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Portsmouth - UK
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An Insider's View of Portsmouth City Museum
Join the staff of Portsmouth City Museum and let them give you an insider's view around their favourite exhibitions.
A guided tour around Dickens' birthplace
There is no author more connected with Christmas than Charles Dickens. On the
eve of the 200th anniversary of his birth, The Telegraph takes a tour around
the house where he was born with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, his
great-great-great granddaughter.
Charles Dickens Documentary England hosted by Sir Derek Jacobi
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Wikipedia
Born: February 7, 1812, Landport, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Died: June 9, 1870, Gads Hill Place, United Kingdom
Children: Francis Dickens, Kate Perugini, Henry Fielding Dickens, MORE
Plays: A Tale of Two Cities, No Thoroughfare, The Frozen Deep
About the Charles Dickens Museum, London
Welcome to the Charles Dickens Museum. If you are curious about the Museum or simply want to remember your last visit, watch this short film about Dickens's only remaining London home. The Charles Dickens Museum gives you the opportunity to step back in time as if Dickens himself had just stepped out the door.
With thanks to Chocolate Films, Miriam Margolyes and Simon Callow.
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DICKENS' 200th BIRTHDAY - PortsMOUTH
Discussing Dickens - The Portsmouth public celebrate Charles Dickens' Bicentennial. (That's not a bisexual centipede, that's a 200th Birthday party.)
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Crew - Chris Robertson & Dominic Boohally
Charles Dickens Biography and Works
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Biography Charles Dikens...
Was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.
Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens went on to improve the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and Dickens often wove in elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
Most famous works ...
Oliver Twist.
It is the story of a young orphan, published between 1837 and 1838 relates his adventures, beginning on the day of his birth. From the heart of a dying mother, becomes part of the shocked world of the living, where luck is not exactly his mate.
The scenario begins to locate temporally and spatially on a cold winter night in a small town in England where Oliver's mother is found by people who take her to a hospice to have her baby. After the death of his mother, the child will remain there for ten months before being transferred to another facility where it will withstand the cruelties of Mrs. Monn.
At age 9 he was taken another institution where he continued his miserable life, being adopted by horrible characters.
Canción de navidad de Charles Dickens.
It was published in 1843, and has five chapters which the author called stanzas.
The action takes place in London, on a cold Christmas night. Its protagonist, Mr. Scrooge is a greedy, cold and calculating, that work of three spirits, representing well, enable the conversion of Scrooge, which is not progressive but abrupt and radical.
After the death of his partner, Jacob Marley, our protagonist, becomes sole heir to a fortune.
Casually Christmas night, rejecting the invitation of his nephew and denying help to the needy, he retired to rest. There the spectrum of Marley, his former partner comes, dragging chains, berating their actions, and foreshadowing that he will also be punished unless it receives three spirits.
David Copperfield.
This novel, semi autobiographical, starting on his birthday, a Friday at twelve o'clock, at which it was bound, as the midwives of the place to be unhappy and see spirits for the rest of his days.
Fatherless, endured intrusion into his life and his mother Miss Betsey, a rich and flamboyant aunt who would have preferred that the baby was a girl.
However, his life no major incidents, until his mother decides to get link to Mr. Murdstone, evil figure, accompanied by the presence of such a sinister like him who will suffer all manner of David misfortunes and mistreatment .
Historia de dos ciudades.
The story is set between two cities: London and Paris, at the dawn of the French Revolution. The first city symbolizes peace, second agitation, challenge and chaos.
The first part is set in the year 1775 in France. Lucia is a 18 year old girl who thought her dead father. However, thanks to the mediation of attorney Jarvis Lorry, manages to reunite with him and travel to England.
[Wikipedia] Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum is a writer's house museum in Landport, Portsmouth, England situated at the birthplace of the eminent English author Charles Dickens; and as such played a prominent part in the 2012 bicentennial celebrations.
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Prince Charles Camilla visited the Charles Dickens Museum to mark the author's 200th birthday
(8 Feb 2012) PRINCE CHARLES CELEBRATES DICKENS' 200TH BIRTHDAY
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visited the Charles Dickens Museum in central London on Tuesday (7 Feb.) to mark the author's 200th birthday.
Dickens was the first global celebrity author and the chronicler of a world of urban inequality that looks a lot like the one we live in today.
He wrote about life in the modern city - with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks - and created characters still known to millions: Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist.
As part of Tuesday's museum tour, the heir to the throne cut a celebratory cake, examined original drafts of the author's work, and met Gillian Anderson, who recently starred as Miss Havisham in a televised adaptation of Great Expectations.
The prince also joined Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, actor Ralph Fiennes, a host of dignitaries and scores of Dickens' descendants at a memorial service in London's Westminster Abbey.
Charles laid a wreath of white roses and snowdrops on the writer's grave in Poet's Corner - resting place of national literary icons - and two of Dickens' youngest descendants added a pair of small white posies.
A simultaneous event was held in Portsmouth, southern England, where Dickens was born, the son of a navy pay clerk, on 7 February 1812.
In a message, Charles called Dickens one of the greatest writers of the English language, who used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice.
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Attractions and things to do in Portsmouth
Aerial Views, Spinnaker Tower, Old Porstmouth, Hitsoric Dockyard, The Mary Rose Museum, Gunwharf Quays, Fort Nelson and Charles Dickens Birthplace.
Charles Dickens: 200th anniversary
The united Kingdom celebrates 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall led the global celebrations of the 200th anniversary of British novelist. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth on February 7, 1812 and wrote many well-known novels, reflecting Victorian era Britain and focusing of social injustices and the predicament of the working class. Prince Charles laid a wreath at Dickens' grave at the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey. For more vidoes, visit&subscribe to youtube.com/londravizyon and youytube.com/londonperspectives
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England - city tour
Portsmouth is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Located mainly on Portsea Island, 110 km south-west of London and 31 km south-east of Southampton, it is the United Kingdom's only island city.
The city's history can be traced to Roman times. A significant naval port for centuries, Portsmouth has the world's oldest dry dock and was England's first line of defence during the French invasion in 1545. Special Palmerston Forts were built in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe. By the early-19th century, Portsmouth was the most heavily fortified city in the world, and was considered the world's greatest naval port at the height of the British Empire throughout Pax Britannica. The world's first mass production line was set up in the city, making it the most industrialised site in the world. During the Second World War, the city was a pivotal embarkation point for the D-Day landings and was bombed extensively in the Portsmouth Blitz, which resulted in the deaths of 930 people. In 1982, the city housed the entirety of the attacking forces in the Falklands War. Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia left the city to oversee the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997, which marked for many the end of the empire.
Portsmouth is one of the world's best known ports. HMNB Portsmouth is the largest dockyard for the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK's surface fleet. The city is home to some famous ships, including HMS Warrior, the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays. Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals: the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower, one of the United Kingdom's tallest structures at 560 feet. Nearby Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle.
Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations. The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover, handling around three million passengers a year. The University of Portsmouth enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world's best modern universities. Portsmouth is also the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.