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For media enquiries please visit our ‘Contact’ page. Cracking the Dickens Code is a story that caught the world’s imagination. The ‘Tavistock’ letter discovery, made thanks to the efforts of the Dickens Decoders, has featured on ITV News at Ten…

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‘Decoding Dickens’ Online Exhibition

Visit ‘Decoding Dickens: The Shorthand Mysteries’

This free online exhibition explores the role of shorthand in Dickens’s life and work, as a learner, practitioner and teacher, and how he left behind the stenographic mystery of his own shorthand – the Dickens Code.

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What the Dickens? Our decoders have been asked to consult on Gurney shorthand related to a nineteenth-century Canadian murder case! Help us crack the code to be in with a chance of winning a 1-year membership for the Charles Dickens Museum!

Deadline: 2 May 2025

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