We’re getting close to the end of Notebook D, setting four more pages for our challenge this June. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 1 July 2024
Tag: #SolveItDickens
2024 Easter Challenge Solution: A new Dickens shorthand mystery?
Rather than a new mystery, the curious ‘specimen’ of shorthand from The Strand Magazine turned out to be an old ‘friend’ from the Brachygraphy manual… Find out more and download a line-by-line transcript here.
May 2024 challenge: Notebook D continued
We’re continuing Arthur Stone’s Notebook D this May. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 31 May 2024
Easter challenge: a new Dickens shorthand mystery?
Over Easter, we’re inviting you to dig into a new Dickens shorthand mystery… Find out more and download a competition entry form here.
Deadline: 3 May 2024
Continuing Notebook D II Challenge
From February to mid-March, we’re continuing Arthur Stone’s Notebook D. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 15 March 2024
Christmas and New Year Challenge: Continuing Notebook D
For our Christmas and New Year challenge, we’re continuing Arthur Stone’s Notebook D. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 31 January 2024
November 2023 Challenge: Beginning Notebook D
For our November challenge, we’re starting Arthur Stone’s Notebook D. What new mysteries will we discover? Download an entry form and find out!
Deadline: 4 December 2023
Chinnery Summer Transcription Challenge
This summer, we’re taking a break from decoding Dickens and turning attention to another user of the Gurney shorthand system: the artist George Chinnery (1774-1852). Can you crack Chinnery’s shorthand annotations?
Deadline: 15 September 2023.
Letter to Richard Bentley: Fill in the gaps challenge
Our challenge for May 2023 aims to ‘fill in the gaps’ in a partially transcribed letter to Victorian publisher Richard Bentley.
Deadline: 31 May 2023
‘Didactic’ transcript
‘Didactic’ has turned out to be a short piece criticising Rome and commenting on Catholicism in terms similar to Dickens’s ‘Pictures from Italy’ (1846). Download a transcript here.