Charles Dickens and family lived here at 48 Doughty St. WC1 from 1837 1839 and is the only surviving Dickens home. It was a gated and liveried street at the time, and the family could afford to live here only du to the popularity of The Pickwick Papers at the time. It is now open to the public and houses a largecollection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator. We also produce a Nation of Shopkeepers version of this building which we launched in 2000 at the Museum with the Collectors Club, in the company of Cedric Charles Dickens.