Our August #SolveItDickens challenge focuses on ‘Travelling’ part I. What is this shorthand dictation exercise about? Is it a travelogue or something else? We’ll need to transcribe the text to find out!
Deadline: 2 September 2022
Author: Claire Wood
‘Anecdote’ part II
Our July #SolveItDickens challenge focuses on ‘Anecdote’ part II. How does this story end? We’ll need to transcribe the text to find out!
Deadline: 31 June 2022
‘You have seen me before tonight’: Transcribing ‘The Two Brothers’ part II
We thought the mystery of ‘The Two Brothers’ was solved when the amazing work of the Dickens Decoders produced a full transcript of part II. But, thanks to two eagle eyed decoders, it soon emerged that it wasn’t just the ghost of the Slough brother that we’d ‘seen […] before tonight’. Find out more and download a full transcript.
‘Anecdote’ part I
Our June #SolveItDickens challenge focuses on ‘Anecdote’ part I. What is this mysterious anecdote about? We’ll need to transcribe the text to find out!
Deadline: 30 June 2022
‘So […] fiction may have had some foundation of truth in it’: Transcribing ‘Nelson’ part II
The Dickens Decoders have done it again! Find out what happens next in ‘Nelson’ part II and download a near complete transcript.
‘The Two Brothers’ part II
Our May #SolveItDickens challenge focuses on ‘The Two Brothers’ part II. Can we work out how this mysterious ghost story ends?
Deadline: 31 May 2022
‘Nelson’ part II
The mystery deepens with April’s challenge focusing on ‘Nelson’ part II. Look out for words written in longhand that provide additional context clues. Happy solving!
Deadline: 29 April
Decoding the Tavistock letter, or, Dickens and the ‘dark arts of Victorian media management’
The secrets of the Tavistock letter are finally revealed, thanks to the amazing work of our Dickens Decoders. Find out more and download a transcript of the letter in this post.