Doughty Street

I mean, I'm always on the hunt, and I love poking around in history and al- always at a museum or some sort of strange stately home or something looking for some kind of spark.

And I went as, um, as m- part of my rambling to the Dickens Museum, which is in London on Doughty Street.

Mm-hmm.

And it's his first ...

He lived in a sort of a series of apartments, and then they got ...

They had to leave the apartments because they, they weren't allowed to have babies there, him and his wife.

So he lived at Furnival's Inn, and then they moved to this, which was their first real home, Doughty Street, and they only lived there for a few years.

They had some really important life events happen there, and it's now a museum that you can go and see in London.

A Dickens Christmas Walk Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol was written in London in 1843, and Dickens' London is still surprisingly tangible.

Start at the Charles Dickens Museum on Doughty Street, his only surviving London home that remains a museum, then walk south towards the city.

If you want an entire Dickens Day, finish with the Great Christmas Feast.

So what is The Great Christmas Feast? It returns in November and December for 2026.