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‘All the watering places are crammed with hot people’: on holiday with Dickens

Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum in London looks at writer’s holiday pursuits, from Kent to the Isle of Wight It’s summer in the city, the pubs are crowded, and the coast beckons. In a year that has so far brought five significant heatwaves, it is a fair description of the current holiday season. But the same was true, too, of the much less frequent hot, dry summers of the past, including 186 years ago when Charl

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The Guardian
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20 Aug 2026, 12:20 UTC
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Caroline Davies
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Charles Dickens
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Exhibition at Charles Dickens Museum in London looks at writer’s holiday pursuits, from Kent to the Isle of Wight It’s summer in the city, the pubs are crowded, and the coast beckons. In a year that has so far brought five significant heatwaves, it is a fair description of the current holiday season. But the same was true, too, of the much less frequent hot, dry summers of the past, including 186 years ago when Charl
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