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
Past challenges
‘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
‘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
The ‘Nelson’ challenge
Our first #SolveItDickens challenge of 2022 comes from the notebooks of Dickens’s shorthand pupil, Arthur Stone, at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Deadline: 31 March 2022
‘The Two Brothers’: A festive #SolveItDickens challenge
Help us fill in the blanks, in this mini-challenge focused on the ‘Two Brothers’ shorthand extract.
Deadline: 31 January 2022
‘Decoding Dickens’ prize
Running until New Year’s Eve 2021, our ‘Decoding Dickens’ prize challenge offered £300 for the best full or partial solution to the mysterious Tavistock letter.