A Dickens of a Tour: Charles Dickens in Washington

12/21/2022

Dickens is taking a break this year and will return in 2023. Tiny Tim wishes you well and says "please make the Cratchit Family Pudding Recipe" on the Dickens page at https://www.historicstrolls.com/a-dickens-of-a-tour.html

12/13/2021

The Dickens tour will return in 2022. Tiny Tim and family will be back! Meanwhile visit the Dickens page and try out the Cratchit family Pudding recipe. Please let us know how it turns out!!

Our tour is Washington DC's longest running tour about Charles Dickens. It follows the trail of Charles Dickens. We walk where he did in 1842 and 1868 and along the route, we present scenes from " A...

07/27/2021

Today's throwback Tuesday (I know, I know) is from a rehearsal for the Dickens tour waaaay back. Yes, Virginia, we do rehearse these things. We don't rehearse a lot but we do rehearse. This is Nic and Michael and June. We do miss rehearsing and touring!

11/25/2020

Sadly, Tiny Tim reports the Dickens tour 2020 is cancelled due to Pandemic. He used the word "plague" but we know what he means. He's adorable and shall be missed. Look for Tim and all the Dickens in 2021. Meanwhile, please enjoy the Cratchit Family Recipe which is posted on historicstrolls.com. And do please post your holiday pictures or recipes here!

https://www.historicstrolls.com/a-dickens-of-a-tour.html

04/27/2020

Historic Strolls wants you to be safe. Stay home, wash your hands, wear a mask if you must go out. Here is a photo from one of our World War One events with NASM. These fabulous actor interpreters portraying 1918 Red Cross workers remind us: staying home, wearing masks, washing hands and staying home will save lives. And Historic Strolls will return when it is safe to do so.

12/21/2019

The Dickens Tour is taking a holiday this season and will return in 2020. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Visit the Dickens page at our website for the Cratchit pudding recipe.

About the Ghost Story Tour of Washington, touring Lafayette Square since 2000

10/31/2019

Connecting your neighborhood with the world

06/12/2019

When the museum's president goes to New York on Tuesday, he'll be accepting the prestigious Gold American Business Award for Nonprofit Organization of the Year!

12/31/2018

08/11/2018

A Dickens of an Intern! Yes, Virgina, tis true, Dickens interns go on to great heights after interning with us. From left to right: the Fabulous Kara, Jessica, Michael (with Gerald Dickens) and now Sydney have interned on Dickens and frozen their Cratchit feet while learning just how hard it is to change costumes outdoors in December! Only Four Months until Dickens returns!!

07/11/2018

This might be the scariest pic we got last year. It's Sydney as Anna Surratt! Eeeek! If you took a better, scarier pic on Ghost Story Tour of Washington, post on our wall and you might win ticket to this years Anniversary tour!! We are celebrating the twentieth year of telling ghost stories in DC this Fall. Eeek, indeed.