A Dickens of a Tour: Charles Dickens in Washington

12/13/2021

The Dickens tour will return in 2022. Tiny Tim and family will be back! Meanwhile visit the Dickens page and try out the Cratchit family Pudding recipe. Please let us know how it turns out!!
https://www.historicstrolls.com/a-dickens-of-a-tour.html

Our tour is Washington DC's longest running tour about Charles Dickens. It follows the trail of Charles Dickens. We walk where he did in 1842 and 1868 and along the route, we present scenes from " A...

07/27/2021

Today's throwback Tuesday (I know, I know) is from a rehearsal for the Dickens tour waaaay back. Yes, Virginia, we do rehearse these things. We don't rehearse a lot but we do rehearse. This is Nic and Michael and June. We do miss rehearsing and touring!

11/25/2020

Sadly, Tiny Tim reports the Dickens tour 2020 is cancelled due to Pandemic. He used the word "plague" but we know what he means. He's adorable and shall be missed. Look for Tim and all the Dickens in 2021. Meanwhile, please enjoy the Cratchit Family Recipe which is posted on historicstrolls.com. And do please post your holiday pictures or recipes here!

https://www.historicstrolls.com/a-dickens-of-a-tour.html

04/27/2020

Historic Strolls wants you to be safe. Stay home, wash your hands, wear a mask if you must go out. Here is a photo from one of our World War One events with NASM. These fabulous actor interpreters portraying 1918 Red Cross workers remind us: staying home, wearing masks, washing hands and staying home will save lives. And Historic Strolls will return when it is safe to do so.

12/21/2019

The Dickens Tour is taking a holiday this season and will return in 2020. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Visit the Dickens page at our website for the Cratchit pudding recipe. Www.historicstrolls.com

About the Ghost Story Tour of Washington, touring Lafayette Square since 2000

10/31/2019

Connecting your neighborhood with the world

06/12/2019

When the museum's president goes to New York on Tuesday, he'll be accepting the prestigious Gold American Business Award for Nonprofit Organization of the Year!

12/31/2018

08/11/2018

A Dickens of an Intern! Yes, Virgina, tis true, Dickens interns go on to great heights after interning with us. From left to right: the Fabulous Kara, Jessica, Michael (with Gerald Dickens) and now Sydney have interned on Dickens and frozen their Cratchit feet while learning just how hard it is to change costumes outdoors in December! Only Four Months until Dickens returns!!

07/11/2018

This might be the scariest pic we got last year. It's Sydney as Anna Surratt! Eeeek! If you took a better, scarier pic on Ghost Story Tour of Washington, post on our wall and you might win ticket to this years Anniversary tour!! We are celebrating the twentieth year of telling ghost stories in DC this Fall. Eeek, indeed.

07/10/2018

Oh my stars! It might be time for another Doubting Abbey show this Fall. Whom should we feature this time? The staff below stairs or the posh folk upstairs?

07/02/2018

Dickens 2017!

01/20/2018

It’s November, 2001, and a group of actors are huddled around beverages and scripts at a toasty Cosi in Penn Quarter. They’re reading through a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol as part of a walking tour. The read through is revelatory, the beverages divine and then comes the realization that ...

09/21/2017

Our TBT this week: Michael Hovde and Gerald Dickens (great descendant of Charles Dickens) in 2005

12/24/2016

The Cratchit family Christmas pudding recipe can be found on the Dickens page on our website. Enjoy, my dears and Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy Kwanzaa to all from Historic Strolls!

12/20/2016

English Heritage

Crackers! They are a must for a Dickens Christmas...

Christmas dinner wouldn't be complete without pulling a cracker, but did you know this festive favourite dates back to Victorian times? Inspired by French bonbons and a crackling fireplace, they were first produced in the 1840s by an English sweet manufacturer.

What's the best (or worst!) joke you've ever received in a cracker?

12/16/2016

The Real Reason Charles Dickens Wrote 'A Christmas Carol'

True!

The story's seemingly timeless transcendence hides the fact that it was very much the product of a particular moment in history

11/25/2016

Small Business Saturday! Dickens Tour tickets available now at www.historicstrolls.com

06/26/2015

Did you know that the Dickens Tour can be engaged as a Private Tour? We've recently done a walk about Dickens visits to Washington City for a group in June. And there was no snow! It was delightfully warm.

12/20/2014

Dickens today at noon!! www.historicstrolls.com

12/17/2014

On 200th Birthday, There's No 'Bah Humbug' For Charles Dickens

In 2012 Huffington Post mentioned the Dickens tour. This weekend, catch the 14th annual edition of the tour at noon on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets at www.historicstrolls.com

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me." -- Ebenezer Scrooge from "A Christmas Carol." WILMINGT...

11/26/2014

Natalie Zanin's Historic Strolls home page

Photos from past Dickens Tours to show you what the madness looks like:http://historicstrolls.com/dickensphotos.htm

Guide, Solicitor, Mrs. Cratchit • Scrooge • Nephew Fred, Bob Cratchit, Marley, Young Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Crone • 1840's girl, Belle Fezziwig, Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future

11/25/2014

A Dickens of a Tour

Tickets on sale now for the Dickens tour! http://historicstrolls.weebly.com/a-dickens-of-a-tour.html

Our tour follows the trail of Charles Dickens. We walk where he did in 1842 and 1868 and along the route, we present scenes from " A Christmas Carol" which he wrote in 1843. Gerald Dickens, the...

11/18/2014

Calendar

The Dickens tour returns for a 14th year! Saturday December 20th and Sunday December 21st at noon. Tickets on sale now at http://historicstrolls.com/dickens%20tour%20info%20and%20tickets.html

"A Dickens of a Tour: Charles Dickens in Washington" for 2014: December 20th and 21st at 12:00 noon: The Dickens Tour meets at Cosi at 10th and E Streets NW (1001 Pennsylvania Ave NW). Cosi has coffee and other hot drinks and hearty food. Mrs. Cratchit will be in costume outside the front door.

12/28/2013

Home Page

Military Id holders and their spouses are always half price on the Dickens Tour www.historicstrolls.com

Welcome to Historical time travel! Our Civil War Tour runs from March to November, our Ghost Tour runs every Friday/Saturday in October and on Halloween.Our Dickens Tour is in December.Private Tours can be scheduled year-round for any size group. Group discounts are available on public tours. Tours…

12/27/2013

A Dickens of aTour: Charles Dickens in Washington

Dickens! Saturday! Noon! Cosi at 10th and E NW! http://bit.ly/1efylRj

Since 2001, DCs original Charles Dickens Walking tour. Led by a character from A Christmas Carol. As seen in the Washington Post and in Fodors.

12/24/2013

A Dickens of aTour: Charles Dickens in Washington

Tickets for Dickens may be had from Mrs. Cratchit or online if you wish at http://www.ghoststorytourwashington.com/adickensofatourcharlesdickensinwashington.html

Since 2001, DCs original Charles Dickens Walking tour. Led by a character from A Christmas Carol. As seen in the Washington Post and in Fodors.

12/22/2013

The Dickens tour will go on in light rain but not thunderstorms. We have our umbrellas and are ready to be Dickensian!