Attend Dickensfest

For anyone not yet suffering Dickens fatigue as a result of all the bicentenary events taking place in recent months, today's Dickensfest at King's College London looks set to be a real treat.


The festival offers a free day of talks, readings and film clips in association with the College and Westminster City Archives, in the company of Dickens enthusiasts from around the country, and chaired by Dickens experts Professor Brian Hurwitz and Professor Clare Brant.

For more, see http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/lifewriting/dickensfest.aspx

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See the Queen Mary Clocktower

The impressive Grade II listed stone clocktower at the Mile End Campus of Queen Mary, University of London, was erected in 1890, presented for the benefit of the people of East London by Herbert Stern Esq, in memory of his father Baron de Stern.


The tower's design incorporates marble basins for drinking fountains on north and south sides, though these are not used today, and we are told that the clock tower is surmounted by a double cupola and has wide cornices above and below clock, whatever that means.

For more, see http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/baron-de-stern-clock-tower