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Welcome to the Visit Portsmouth blog, where you'll find updates, inspiration and key details straight from the Great Waterfront City. Take a look through the archive below, and be sure to check back regularly as we update you on some of the top goings on at city attractions and all the key details you need to know in advance of visiting the city for a major event.

Posts From: February 2017

Photograph showing the front of the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum

Charles Dickens and Portsmouth

By Visit Portsmouth on Feb. 06, 2017

On 7 February 1812, in a small terraced house in Portsmouth, the canon of English literature was to change forever. It was on this day that Charles Dickens, arguably the most celebrated Victorian author, was born. John Dickens (who worked in Portsea's Royal Navy Pay Office) and his wife Elizabeth…

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