‘Didactic’ means ‘intended to instruct’ – but what does Dickens want to teach his pupil Arthur, here? Let’s find out!
Deadline: 3 March 2023
Tag: #SolveItDickens
‘Sunday night’ part I
This month our shorthand page has a longhand date, rather than a longhand title. What does this suggest about the type of document we might be dealing with? Download an entry form and have a go!
Deadline: 30 November 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.
‘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
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