12th January
2nd February
Professor Catherine Waters, Professor of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, University of Kent. “ 'An Evening with Charles Dickens' on the Nineteenth-Century Lecture Circuit.”
9th February
THE BROADSTAIRS BIRTHDAY ZOOM: Professor Malcolm Andrews, Emeritus Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies, University of Kent. “David Copperfield and Love”. Email to register for Link: info@broadstairsdickensfellowship.com
12th February
Happy Birthday Mr Dickens! at The Pavilion, Broadstairs, at 3 pm. “The Jellyby Family” from Bleak House by Charles Dickens performed by the Dickens Declaimers. (Open to the
public: plus a cream tea -details to follow)
2nd March
Dr Tony Williams, Past President of the Dickens Fellowship, Associate Editor of The Dickensian, Honorary Academic Advisor to the Charles Dickens Museum, London, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Humanities, University of Buckingham, Honorary Life Member and Former Joint General Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship. “Taking the ‘impress from the moving age’: Charles Dickens and Railways.”
Maria Moxon M.A. of the Gaskell Society, “Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell: A Relationship in Print”.
THE BROADSTAIRS DICKENS FAMILY ZOOM: Lucinda Hawksley , Dickens’ great, great, great granddaughter talks about her new book “Dickens and Travel”. Email to register for Link: info@broadstairsdickensfellowship.com
4th May
Professor John Mullan, University College, London. Title to be advised
11th May
Annual Dinner at the Pavilion, Broadstairs, 7.30pm. Guest of Honour, Gerald Dickens, (Details to follow)
1st June
Paul Lewis, Freelance Writer and Broadcaster, Editor of Wilkie Collins’s letters and Secretary of the Wilkie Collins Society. “Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Money - the Financial Relationship of two great Victorian writers.”
THE BROADSTAIRS COMMEMORATIVE ZOOM: Paul Graham, Honorary General Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship: “The Dickens Fellowship at 120.” Email to register for Link: info@broadstairsdickensfellowship.com
“Celebrating Charles Dickens” at the Pavilion, Broadstairs, (commemorating Dickens’s death 9th June 1870) a performance of “Nicholas and Smike join the Theatricals” from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, performed by The Dickens Declaimers. (Open to the public: plus a cream tea - details to follow)
Dr Rosalind Crone, Senior Lecturer, History School of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University. “Revisiting Dickens’s World: Some Thoughts from a 19th Century Social Historian.”
Proposed outing to Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, Portsmouth. (Members only. Details to follow).
Outdoor meeting in Nuckell’s Gardens at 3 pm, with wine and a performance by The Dickens Declaimers. (Members only).
A.N. Wilson talks about his book “The Mystery of Charles Dickens”. 5th October Dr Jacquie Stamp, “Dickens and the Arctic”.
Annual General Meeting (members only)
Christmas Social with seasonal refreshments and a performance by The Dickens Declaimers.
THE BROADSTAIRS CHRISTMAS ZOOM – Professor Jerry White, Historian and Author “Where’s That Turkey?” the London Christmas of 1869. Dickens’s last? Email to register for Link: info@broadstairsdickensfellowship.com