Events
1 October 2021
Online
#SolveItDickens Workshop 1, 3pm-4pm (BST)
A free, practical deciphering workshop, exploring an item of Charles Dickens's shorthand writing. This is the first of three online sessions taking place in Autumn 2021.
23 July 2021
University of Leicester
'Decoding Dickens: Contexts, Approaches, Inspirations', 2.00pm-6.30pm (BST)
An online networking symposium that introduces the ‘savage stenographic mystery’ of Dickens’s shorthand and the challenges of deciphering unusual scripts.
- Register for your free ticket
- Download the programme (PDF, 282KB)
- Download the optional pre-symposium 'decoding' task (PDF, 300KB)
20 February 2021
University of Hamburg
'The Devil's Handwriting: Digital Humanities and the Dickens Code Project' presentation at the 'Stenographical Studies' workshop.
18 February 2021
V&A, London
'The Dickens Code' presentation at 'Dickens in the Digital Age'.
18 September 2020
University of Buckingham
'Introducing the Dickens Code' presentation at 'The Impact of Dickens' conference.