This book was Dickens' first historical novel (his only other being the much later A Tale of Two Citie, also set in revolutionary times. It is one of his less-popular novels but still has been adapted for film or television (the last production was a 1960 BBC production; prior to that, silent films were made in 1915 and 1911).

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock. It is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1874) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.