Dickens's Bookshelves

In this video learn how Charles Dickens’s varied group of friends helped him understand the sciences of his time as Dr Adelene Buckland provides an insight into his bookshelves and things he did beyond the realm of books in his pursuit of understanding the different sciences.

This video is the second in a series of six videos celebrating our special exhibition, Charles Dickens: Man of Science. The first video can be found here.

Dr Adelene Buckland is a senior lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at King's College, London. Her specialism is science and literature, and she is the author of numerous articles on the subject, including a chapter on geology in The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science (2017). She is the author of Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology (Chicago: 2013) for which she was the winner of the 2012 Marc-Auguste-Pictet Prize in the History of Science.