The Gad’s Hill Scroll with Professor Michael Slater

Professor Michael Slater MBE examines the significance of the illuminated scroll that Dickens commissioned for the hallway of his home at Gad’s Hill Place in Kent. It is now on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London (dickensmuseum.com).

This is the first of two short videos in which the celebrated expert explores the relationship between the fact and fiction in Dickens’s life and work. The next video can be found here. 

Professor Slater is a Fellow of Birkbeck University of London and Emeritus Professor in its Department of English and Humanities. He is one of the world’s most highly regarded Dickens scholars. He is a past President of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America, and former editor of ‘The Dickensian’. His internationally acclaimed books include Charles Dickens. A Life Defined by Writing (Yale UP, 2011), The Great Charles Dickens Scandal (Yale UP, 2012) and Dickens on America & The Americans (Edward Everett Root Publishers, September 2017).