Bristol and Clifton Dickens Society

The Society was founded on the 4th of April 1902 and is one of the oldest Dickensian organisations in the world.  It is open to anyone interested in Charles Dickens and his works and is an autonomous branch of the Dickens Fellowship.

Click on the links above to find out more about us.

Go to MEETINGS to see the Programme for 2010 - 2011.  The Book for the Year is Our Mutual Friend.

Members and friends can attend the Annual International Dickens Fellowship Conference, which is held at different locations around the world: in 2003 it was held in Bristol. In 2011 it will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand during April.

Our Mutual Friend

2010-11 Book of the Year

AIMS

'To form a bond of union' among lovers of Dickens and to hold meetings of a literary, dramatic and social character.

To support such philanthropic and other social and public purposes as are held to be in keeping with the spirit of Charles Dickens

The funds of the Society shall (after payment of all annual expenses, for which an adequate sum shall be retained) be applied towards such purposes.

SUPPORTED CHARITY

We are continuing to support THE JULIAN TRUST working for the Homeless in Bristol.
 

 "I remember how I thought of all the solitary places under the night sky where I had slept, and how I prayed that I never might be houseless any more, and might never forget the houseless."