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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 [...]

Bitesize Boz: Reading Dickens in instalments online Pete Orford Following the opening post by Samina Ansari, Dr Pete Orford (@DrPeteOrford on Twitter) of the University of Buckingham starts off [...]

This post by Samina Ansari , Junior Vice President of the BMI, kicks off the new ‘BMI lockdown life’ series of guest posts. This series is a collaboration with the University of Birmingham’s [...]

BMI Experience    Originally I saw working for the BMI to be a filler of time over my long post-GCSE summer rather than a learning experience, but I have most definitely been proven wrong in that [...]