Editing Camden Town (section)

==In popular culture==

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===In literature===
*Author [[Charles Dickens]], a onetime resident of Camden Town,<ref>{{cite book|last=Pope-Hennessy|first=Una |author-link=Una Pope-Hennessy|title=Charles Dickens 1812–1870|publisher=Chatto and Windus|location=London|year=1945|page=11|chapter=The Family Background}}</ref> placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: [[Bob Cratchit]]'s family in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' (1843); the [[Wilkins Micawber|Micawbers]] in ''[[David Copperfield]]'' (1850); and in ''[[Dombey and Son]]'' (1846–1848), a description of the building of the [[London and Birmingham Railway]], includes a trip through Camden Town.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecnj.com/review/2009/042309/stgeorge042309_03.html|title= Camden's famous faces|date=23 April 2009 |publisher=Camden New Journal|access-date=6 November 2009}}</ref>
*[[E. Nesbit]]'s 1904 children's novel ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'' is set at 18 Camden Terrace, Camden Town.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rosenberg |first=Teya |chapter=Generic Manipulation and Mutation: E. Nesbit's Psammead Series as Early Magical Realism |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Raymond E. |title=E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy: A Children's Classic at 100 |year=2006 |page=72 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810854017 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLERfuhpRSMC&pg=PA72}}</ref>
*[[John Betjeman]]'s poem "Business Girls" is set in Camden Town.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecnj.com/review/020906/features020906_01.html|title=Betjeman's great defender|first=Jane|last=Wright |date=2006|newspaper=Camden New Journal|author=<!--not stated-->}}</ref>
*The climax of [[John le Carré]]'s 1974 spy novel ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' occurs in a [[safe house]] at 5 Lock Gardens in Camden Town, a fictitious address modelled after real-life St. Mark's Crescent.<ref>Paula Span, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/10/11/tinker-tailor-soldier-tourist/328617f0-4b73-4c6e-9377-1fbd48c5db2e/ ''TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER... TOURIST''], ''The Washington Post'', accessed 27 January 2016</ref>

===In film and television===
*The 1986 cult comedy film ''[[Withnail and I]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Withnail & I |website=Channel 4 |access-date=1 October 2021 |url= https://www.channel4.com/programmes/withnail-i}}</ref> is set in Camden Town in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |title=On Location: The London pub from Withnail & I |last=Scovell |first=Adam |work=Little White Lies |date=23 November 2019 |url= https://lwlies.com/articles/on-location-the-london-pub-from-withnail-i/}}</ref>
*The 2008 [[Mike Leigh]] film ''[[Happy-Go-Lucky (2008 film)|Happy-Go-Lucky]]'' largely takes place in Camden Town.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/apr/20/culture.mikeleigh |title=Film of the week: ''Happy-Go-Lucky'' |work=The Observer |author=Phillip French |date=20 April 2008 |access-date=21 February 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/4551/mike-leighs-london-locations.html |title=Mike Leigh's London locations |last=Calhoun |first=Dave |work=Time Out |access-date=21 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515180033/http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/4551/mike-leighs-london-locations.html |archive-date=15 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*In 2019, Disney, along with ''[[Passion Pictures]]'' and ''[[Atomic Cartoons]]'' produced the TV Show ''[[101 Dalmatian Street]]'', which is based in Camden Town
*The character [[Spider-Punk|Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk]] in the 2023 film ''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]'' is from Camden Town.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-09 |title=How Daniel Kaluuya's Cockney-Speaking, Authority-Defying Spider-Punk Came to Life |url=https://www.gq.com/story/spider-punk-daniel-kaluuya-across-the-spider-verse |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=GQ |language=en-US}}</ref>
*There were scenes set at Camden Lock (actually filmed in Liverpool) in the TV series ''[[Peaky Blinders (TV series)|Peaky Blinders]]''.<ref>{{cite web | last=Blinders | first=Peaky | title=The Secrets Behind the Set | website=Peaky Blinders| url=https://peakyblinders.tv/exclusive/the-secrets-behind-the-set/ | access-date=14 November 2024}}</ref>

===In music===
*The song "Camden Town" by [[Suggs (singer)|Suggs]] (1995)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.songplaces.com/Camden_Town/Camden_North_London_England |title=Camden Town by Suggs in Camden, North London, England<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=15 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215212849/http://www.songplaces.com/Camden_Town/Camden_North_London_England |archive-date=15 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The song "Come back to Camden" by [[Morrissey]] from the album ''[[You Are the Quarry]]'' (2004)
*The song "Guided Tour of Camden" by [[Charlie Sloth]], 2007
*The song "Camden Town" by [[Heather Alexander]] from the album Enchantment - Uffington Horse, 2004<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camden Town, by Alexander James Adams |url=https://heatheralexander.bandcamp.com/track/camden-town |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Alexander James Adams |language=en}}</ref>
*The rap song "Camden Town" by music collective Active Gxng, most notable rapper in Active Gxng being [[Sus (rapper)|Sus]]

===In games===
* In ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game)|Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]]'' (2019), a mission named "Clean House" is set in Camden Town.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-10-27 |title=''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' Easter Egg Calls Out Players Who Keep Shooting the Baby |url=https://www.dualshockers.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-easter-egg-calls-out-players-who-keep-shooting-the-baby/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=DualShockers |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-10-26 |title=''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' has a special message for players who keep shooting the baby |language=en |website=Eurogamer.net |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-has-a-special-message-for-players-who-keep-shooting-the-baby |access-date=2023-08-09}}</ref>