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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Dutch town shakes off political strife with ‘world’s largest Dickens festival’

Deventer Dickens festival
Despite no known historical connection with Charles Dickens, Deventer now plays host to what is believed to be the world’s largest Dickens festival. Photograph: Sander Korvemaker

Soon after limited Sunday trading started in the Netherlands, an anglophile shopkeeper in the small city of Deventer decided it could all be a bit more fun.

“My 82-year-old mother, Emmy Strik, is England-minded because my grandfather always went to England and read a lot of Dickens,” said her daughter, Liesbeth Velders, who now runs the Dille & Kamille homeware store.

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