{"id":47266,"date":"2026-10-26T19:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/eventbrite-event\/walking-tour-a-dickens-of-a-city\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:06:19","slug":"walking-tour-a-dickens-of-a-city","status":"publish","type":"eventbrite_events","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/eventbrite-event\/walking-tour-a-dickens-of-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Tour &#8211; A Dickens of a City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Marshalsea Prison Wall &#8211; \u00a9 David Charnick 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The works of Charles Dickens are informed by his urban insights, founded on the observations of the journalist and shot through with human understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join me in celebrating the London evoked by an authentic voice of the city. Enjoy readings which give you the flavour of his London, a Georgian city being remoulded by the Victorians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet me outside St George the Martyr, Borough High Street, SE1 1JA (across from Borough Underground Station).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tour will take approximately two hours, and finishes by Bank Station, for the Underground and DLR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For other literary tours, please see here: <a href=\"http:\/\/charnowalks.co.uk\/page-and-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-msys-clicktrack=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/charnowalks.co.uk\/page-and-stage\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For other City-based tours, please see here: <a href=\"http:\/\/charnowalks.co.uk\/charnowalks-city-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-msys-clicktrack=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/charnowalks.co.uk\/charnowalks-city-tours\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For information on travel, please use Transport for London&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/plan-a-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-msys-clicktrack=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Journey Planner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! 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Join me in celebrating the London evoked by an authentic voice of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-47266","eventbrite_events","type-eventbrite_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","eventbrite_category-davc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Walking Tour - A Dickens of a City - Footprints of London<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/eventbrite-event\/walking-tour-a-dickens-of-a-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walking Tour - A Dickens of a City - Footprints of London\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Explore the London of Charles Dickens through his own words! 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