Charles Dickens

Muppets Christmas Carol

Disney's Muppet Christmas Carol is coming to Portsmouth Guildhall

Portsmouth Museum And Art Gallery

City museum to close temporarily as Portsmouth100 exhibition installed

MC Grindah brings Bare Expectations to life

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations has been given a Gen Z makeover

The Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum has had a bike loop installed directly outside of it.

Portsmouth landmark has bike rack installed directly in front of it

Jatin Patel, Indian Community Ambassador.

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A performance at Portsmouth Guildhall on July 9, 2026 for Portsmouth100, organised by Portsmouth Music Service

Portsmouth100 marked by hundreds of young performers at Guildhall

The model of the what the Royal Navy Coastal Forces Memorial will look like. A fundraising campaign is continuing, with the statue due to be set up at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Fundraiser launched for Royal Navy statue backed by Dickens family

Artist Roo Abrook with her installation, The Dress of Great Expectations, at Cumberland House Natural History Museum, Eastern Parade, Portsmouth
Picture: Chris Moorhouse (070226-14)

Exhibition sees dress of Charles Dickens' character recreated in paper

I Am Born - Exhibition at Storehouse 9 in a special display of literature, liter...

Watch A Christmas Carol brought to life at Charles Dickens birthplace

A Christmas Carol is the story of misery Ebeneezer Scrooge

Bah humbug! Reasons why Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has enduring appeal

The dawn of a new era for City of Portsmouth College's iconic tower

Iconic college landmark to be renamed ‘Ayrton Tower’

Celebrating 213 years of Charles Dickens at his Portsmouth birthplace

Here are 16 hidden gems in the Portsmouth area.

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John Keats

Historic Celebrations in Bedhampton

City of Portsmouth College have opened a vote to find the greatest Portsmouthian ever.

Vote opens to find the greatest Portsmouthian of all time
A Portsmouth college has invited local people to vote for the greatest ever person to have resided in the city.
Joe Williams

The Royal Pier Hotel, Southsea, between the wars

9 great and unique old images of the Royal Pier Hotel in Southsea

Commercial Road - carving a niche

Celebrating Betty Burton - a beloved Portsmouth author

Peter Codling, a renowned Portsmouth-based artist who is currently finalising his extraordinary piece of art, hand-drawn on a replica sail of HMS Victory on Thursday 18th July 2024Pictured: Pete Codling with his artwork at the Historic Dockyard Picture: Habibur Rahman

"Largest charcoal drawing ever created” unveiled at Historic Dockyard

Portsmouth elections 2024 at Portsmouth Guildhall on Thursday, May 2.

Picture: Sarah Standing (020524-1683)

Full list of Portsmouth local election results

English novelist Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), circa 1860. (Photo by John & Charles Watkins/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Celebrating Charles Dickens on the anniversary of his birth

Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum allows visitors to explore the first home of one of the UK's most celebrated authors. Dickens was born at the Portsmouth address - now 393 Commercial Road - more than 200 years ago.

Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum to offer free entry for one day

Jane Austen is one of the county's most-loved authors

Plans for Jane Austen memorial unveiled to celebrate county's much-loved author

Graeme Clements as Ebeneezer Scrooge in Fareham Musical Society's A Christmas Carol, which is at The Ashcroft Arts Centre from November 23-25, 2023

A Christmas Carol get the jukebox musical treatment from local theatre company

The cast of David Copperfield aboard the Isle of Wight ferry

"Fast-paced but engaging": David Copperfield at Groundlings Theatre | Review

The city has a number of statues and memorials - here are just some of them

Statues and monuments across Portsmouth - where they are and what they are for

Taking a seat before boarding the ferry - two David Copperfield cast members

Theatre cast take to the water to promote David Copperfield production
Ferry passengers travelling between Portsmouth and The Isle of Wight mingled with the cast of a forthcoming theatre production.
Simon Carter

The Portsmouth count at the Guildhall Picture: Sarah Standing (040523-3175)

People in Portsmouth's most deprived ward hit the hardest by new voting rules

Plans to allow non-students to use the accommodation have been rejected

Plans to change the use of empty student accommodation are rejected

Pictured: Connie Alison, three-year-olds Indy and Sienna and Samantha Beaven at Victoria Park, Portsmouth

Coronation: 19 pictures of Portsmouth coming out in force to celebrate

Crown Place hall of residence in Portsmouth in July 2018

Councillors urged to take 'tough stance' on student housing developers

The Coniston Inn rural idyll

The Coniston Inn "truly one of the most breath-taking addresses in The Lakes”

Edward Bailey takes the lead role as skinflint Scrooge in Portsmouth Grammar School's production of A Christmas Carol at the New Theatre Royal. Picture: Portsmouth Grammar School

An exceptionally good show as Portsmouth Grammar School pupils do Dickens proud

The volunteers at Landport larder receiving the Freedom of the City award from The Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Tom Coles

Lifeline Portsmouth larder celebrates its first anniversary

The best bedtime stories for kids on Christmas Eve

Cllr Cal Corkery claimed the council had 'failed in its responsibility' to maintain social homes.
Picture: Habibur Rahman

Portsmouth City Council council slammed for selling 8 social homes this year

UoP students protesting over proposed job cuts on the Portsmouth Guildhall steps in February. Picture: Habibur Rahman

University of Portsmouth to proceed with staff cuts

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COMMENT: Far too many children are growing up in poverty

Still friends, despite 1966 and all that.

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The Labour MP for Portsmouth South MP and Charles Dickens councillor, Stephen Morgan, with city activist Kirsty Mellor, who will be Labour's candidate for Charles Dickens at the next local elections on May 7

Portsmouth Labour leader to step down as councillor

Peter Hitchens, writer and journalist for the Mail on Sunday.

'Ugly' Portsmouth chosen as alternative UK capital city by author

Portsmouth's D-Day Story has been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) 2019.

Celebrating Portsmouth's museums on their 125th anniversary

Dickens Birthplace, Old Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Painting by Neil Marshall

Artist captures nostalgic scenes from Portsmouth's past

Christmas Ghost Story Competition

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Christmas Ghost Story Competition

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Charles Dickens in Guildhall Square Picture: Paul Jacobs (14467-16)

A closer look at Portsmouth's amazing monuments

Don't jinx it, but the odds are looking pretty good for this year's Christmas. Picture: Shutterstock

Will Portsmouth get a white Christmas in 2019? Here are the odds of snow this fe...

Don't jinx it, but the odds are looking pretty good for this year's Christmas. Picture: Shutterstock

Will Portsmouth get a white Christmas in 2019? Here are the odds of snow this fe...

Rodney Road in Fratton Picture: Google

New Domino's Pizza gets approval in Portsmouth

Rodney Road in Fratton Picture: Google

New Domino's Pizza gets approval in Portsmouth

Bleak House by David Glass is at New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, on September 26-8, 2019. Picture by Robert Golden

Charles Dickens' Bleak House gets physical in David Glass's new adaptation at Ne...

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COMMENT: Could group have a positive effect on local issues?

(L-R) Cllr Claire Udy and Cllr Jeanette Smith

Independent Portsmouth councillors form own group to 'support local campaigners'

(L-R) Cllr Claire Udy and Cllr Jeanette Smith

Independent Portsmouth councillors form own group to 'support local campaigners'