A festival celebrating Charles Dickens will be held in Worcestershire, nearly 170 years since the novelist visited the county during a national tour.
The Great Recitations Dickens Festival will take place at Script Haven, on High Street, Worcester, during the weekend of 7 and 8 February.
The bookshop has a blue plaque installed in recognition of the time Dickens visited the city to read A Christmas Carol in 1858.
A series of events will take place at Script Haven and in Cathedral Square, including a visit by historian, author and Dickens’ three-time great-granddaughter Lucinda Dickens Hawksley.