Pip receives a visitor from among the criminal classes, but his condescending attempt to play the gentleman rebounds spectacularly.

Mr Pickwick has embarked on a tour of Kent, and this sunny morning finds him leaning over the parapet of Rochester Bridge, deep in reflection.

Charles Dickens laments William the Conqueror’s brutal rampage through rebellious Durham and Yorkshire.

Charles Dickens tells the story of Hereward the Wake, the last Englishman to stand up to William the Conqueror.

Charmed by their attentions to her daughter Kate, Mrs Nickleby rewards Mr Pyke and Mr Pluck with a reminiscence about her favourite home remedy for colds.

Lord George Gordon marched at the head of 50,000 protestors to the House of Commons, to demand that George III’s England did not become like Louis XVI’s France.