{"id":341,"date":"2018-06-14T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/?p=341"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:40:44","slug":"broadstairs-dickens-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/broadstairs-dickens-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadstairs Dickens Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadstairsdickensfestival.co.uk\/#l\">Broadstairs Dickens Festival<\/a> takes place every June, and lasts for about a week. Don&#8217;t be surprised if you bump into a &#8216;Victorian&#8217; while you&#8217;re having your coffee or buying a sandwich! The streets are full of people in Victorian costume, many representing characters from the novels of Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charles Dickens visited Broadstairs in Kent regularly from 1837 until 1859, and the town has always had a strong connection with the famous writer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1937, to commemorate the centenary of the author&#8217;s first visit, Gladys Waterer, the then resident of Dickens House, conceived the idea of putting on a production of David Copperfield and of having people about the town in Victorian dress to publicise it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the Festival, you can take tea with Victorians, listen to historical talks or Victorian entertainment, including dramatizations of Dicken&#8217;s works. It&#8217;s all great fun and very special!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadstairs Dickens Festival takes place every June, and lasts for about a week. Don&#8217;t be surprised if you bump into a &#8216;Victorian&#8217; while you&#8217;re having your coffee or buying a sandwich! The streets are full of people in Victorian costume, many representing characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. &nbsp; Charles Dickens visited Broadstairs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,26,32,39,46,47,48,54,82,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}