Constable Dickens
Exploring Victorian Liverpool's underworld
My first research trip for my PhD study into Victorian detectives was to Liverpool, where I followed in the footsteps of my favourite Victorian author Charles Dickens, who had explored the city 160 years earlier. Ever the urban explorer, Dickens signed up as a special constable and ventured into some of the city’s most dangerous quarters. He used his experiences as inspiration for ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’, series of semi-autobiographical articles for All the Year Round.
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