100 objects for 100 years of the Charles Dickens Museum

To mark 100 years since an unassuming house in Bloomsbury was saved from being turned into a hotel — and became the Charles Dickens Museum, the museum has displayed a hundred of its treasures.The museum at 48 Doughty Street is where Charles Dickens wrote the stories that made him an international superstar. The building was threatened with redevelopment into a hotel but was saved when the Dickens Fellowship secured an option to buy it in June 1922 and then raised the £10,000 mortgage