Enter the world of Charles Dickens in an London exhibition of portraits, private letters, rare manuscripts at the author's ...

For many years now, almost every year during Christmas, I’ve enjoyed making Charles Dickens’ venerable A Christmas Carol part of my Yuletide celebration.

Biden is dead, politically at least, to begin with. As with Jacob Marley in the Dickens's classic this tenet of death must be ...

After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and ...

Ever since Britain's first Christmas celebration in 521AD, we have accumulated many traditions. Eating a strange bird, ...

Dickensian era characters walk around the Port Jefferson Village. Guests will spot characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and Chimney Sweeps. Credit ...

This year, the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah fell on the same day as Christmas for the first time since 2005. Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two ...

Did you know that eating KFC is a popular Christmas tradition in Japan? Thanks to a brilliant marketing campaign in the 1970s, a bucket of fried chicken has become a festive favourite! Speaking of ...

How did the humble turkey become the traditional centerpiece for so many Christmas dinner tables? A lot has been written ...

In Dickens’ 1843 classic tale, “A Christmas Carol,” the Cratchit family could only afford a small goose for their Christmas dinner. After Ebenezer Scrooge was visited by the three ghosts of ...