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Poems to celebrate Christmas It’s Christmas, and what better way to get the festive feelings going than by reading some Christmassy poems? I’m looking forward to hearing Simon Callow reading ‘The [...]

Using CLiC and the BMI resources: Restrictions of passion and effects of convention in Hard Times Alex Round Following her previous post on using CLiC and BMI resources with A Level students, BMI [...]

CLiC as a virtual teaching resource: Exploring the paradoxical role of women in the 19th century Alex Round In this post, Alex Round, a long-term member and newly appointed trustee of the [...]

Bringing Dickens to the Stage. Part Two: Dickens’ performing career This is the second post of the mini-series “Bringing Dickens to the Stage”, in which actor Gerald [...]

Looking through the windows in Stoker’s Dracula In this post, Marta Palandri (@hardlyanitgirl on Twitter) discusses the symbolism of windows, light and darkness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. [...]

Bringing Dickens to the Stage.  Part One: A Christmas Carol In the anniversary week of Charles Dickens’s death, 150 years ago, we are excited to present you a personal view of Charles [...]

A Christmas Carol: A secular or religious text? In this post, Mary Hind-Portley (@Lit_Liverbird) explains how she teaches Dickens’ Christmas Carol with a focus on its religious elements. The [...]

Sikes and Nancy: Dickens and audience In this post, Dr Caroline Radcliffe (University of Birmingham), discusses the dramatic quality of Dickens’s writing. She reflects on Dickens’s own dramatised [...]

“Mew says the cat…Bow-wow-wow says the dog”: Which animal did Dickens prefer? Lydia Craig In this post for the “BMI lockdown life” series, Lydia Craig (@lydiaecraig on Twitter) of the Loyola [...]

Hard Times at the BMI In this post, Dr Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City University), Senior Vice-President of the Birmingham & Midland Institute, discusses Dickens’ role in supporting the [...]