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It was the best of staches, it was the worst of staches

Check out this rare photo of Dickens trying out the mustachioed look in the 1850s, which recently went on display at the Dickens Museum!

Mr. Dickens comes to the museum

The Dickens Museum is hosting a virtual filmed version of Gerald Dickens's one-man show Mr. Dickens Is Coming!, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern on February 6. Go here to learn more and to buy tickets! 

'Dodger' trailer and premiere date

There's a new trailer for the BBC series "Dodger," and it is ... lively! The series premieres February 6.

New year, new reading (part 2)

Rachel, a.k.a. Sydney Wren, at All the (Dickensian) Year Round is starting a Dickens Chronological Reading Club, which aims to read through all the major works plus a few minor ones over the next two years. Go here to see the tentative reading schedule, and go here to see her initial post on the first work, Sketches by Boz. 

New year, new reading

Happy New Year! Jeremy Parrott of Dickens & Co., who's a Dickensblog reader and a member of our Facebook group, is starting 2022 right by beginning a new project, "Reading David Copperfield in Parts." Jeremy will be leading the readings on his YouTube channel, as he explains in this introduction to the project. He'll also be giving away a first edition of Bleak House, so you'll want to pay attention to find out how you can win!

The first video is below, and here's the link where you can subscribe to make sure you don't miss any upcoming ones.