Calling all bookworm Swifties! We've got the NOVLbox for you, just in time for gift giving season! So whether you're looking for a Swiftie Giftie for a friend or for yourself, you should enter to win!! thenovl.com/novl/the-novem…

Can you spot your favourite Dickensian character in the painting?🔍 Curator Emma tells us more about one of the most awe-inspiring portraits in the Charles Dickens Museum🥹

💡Join our Miltonathon this Friday - a shared online reading of Milton’s key works around the world! Detail on poster + website miltonathon.eventbrite.co.uk

Oxford Street is now aglow with thousands of brilliant white stars. Catch them between 4pm and midnight every day till the New Year (Image: PA)

i AM in my sad girl poetry era, thank you for asking thenovl.com/titles/liz-iso…

Soane’s eclectic yet precise arrangements are enduringly inspirational! 🤯❤️ He wrote of the ‘succession of fanciful effects’ that created a ‘poetry of architecture’ at Lincoln’s Inn Fields; a place he built as a unity of the arts, a centre of learning for centuries to come. ✨

Not sure what to gift your Friendsgiving host? We got you, boo! thenovl.com/novl/10-books-…

A London literary walk in collaboration with Night Bird Press, on Virginia Woolf’s birthday and to celebrate publication of Virginia Woolf in the City: Oxford Street Tide. Find out more here….nightbirdpress.com/product-page/v…

OTD - 03/12/1844 - CD reads his latest Christmas book 'The Chimes' to a select audience in John Forster's chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields after travelling back from Italy. Sketched by Daniel Maclise.

Day 5 of our Christmas Countdown is Derek Griffiths MBE. Our older followers may remember Derek from Play School and as the voice of Superted, of course he’s been in many things since! Derek continues reading ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ (1629). #poetry #adventcalendar

The delights of Dickens Museum !

OTD - 19/12/1843 - 'A Christmas Carol' was published by Chapman & Hall. The initial print run of 6,000 sold out in days.

What a way to chase away the the January blues! 😊 Join us on this literary adventure by subscribing to our Youtube channel: youtube.com/@charlesdicken…

Reading Dickens aloud as a new year resolution! Yes!

‘Demystifying Poetry’ a new podcast by Prof Tara Stubbs - highly recommended! Just listened to Tara S great in-depth chat with Deb Alma Poetry Pharmacy 🚑💊📚🇪🇺 of the Poetry Pharmacy and her poetry journey 👍

A new episode of 'Demystifying Poetry' has dropped, with the brilliant Brian Bilston. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. This is a street I found by chance today- in Wolverhampton where I went to an exhibition. Hope you enjoy- I loved this one!

“Dickens in Doughty Street” officially opens today! 100 objects illuminate the life and works of Charles Dickens and the Museum’s role in preserving his legacy. Step into Dickens’s London home to discover more about one of the world’s first international celebrities!🤩

Episode 4 of 'Demystifying Poetry' is out. I talk to the wonderful poet Jacqueline Saphra about forms, a poet's 'home form', and poetry as activism. Listeners can help us solve the mystery of who sent Jacqueline's '100 Lockdown Sonnets' to my home... open.spotify.com/episode/40UJur…

I’m the guest on Demystifying Poetry, ep. 6, Prof Tara Stubb’s podcast ☺️. Can recommend all the episodes!

Next month, join us for an exclusive Twilight Tour where we’ll explore poetry and poetic influence from across the centuries, inspired by Soane’s collection. Experience how poetry animates the Museum, and see rare books from Soane’s Library up-close. 🎟️:soane.org/whats-on/poetr…