1 10 13 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/253cb423bace3bb0efbbc3b4f3e954f0.mp3?Expires=1784764800&Signature=Y9wM-FVfXuvMI5WuJCY0ZWMaE6rCykIicuNfIQnVjK8FWn8pPBnmBlx04Ter8WFmZd3O4vYII3-XCjv3tJm2f0MJfhPFdbYUIW6K7jARa0EVPInNqQCrnlHk9E2ydEhQW0073M3S1jAt2vMV%7ECTCdkr-6E0s2NVSe4CIin0slQA4D62zygUgO1IC8jKV3kNaza1bNXr2PeGTZbukX5AFs2ty-DOFwui0HMk8YNVEI5264OQJYzlf5Lagx4cYZagxe3-zlbJVqiCCNTwOWDNll4xX2PBMGSCnGe7IgBm3-6%7EIGYT7%7E-Xw97wtMdRYXAeXExJu3Y90GgpjznIJuK31Bw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ec3337812b5cb41c1fca0b4b5441b282 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Anecdote Transcription: There is a story related, I think, by Cole which always struck me to be one of the best of ghost stories. Thus the story runs: Once upon a time there was a German student extremely popular with his companions and quite the life of his university. No one fenced better, sang better, danced better, did anything better than he. Suddenly it was noticed that his whole appearance changed. He became melancholy, silent, worn and dejected. After a time, one of the student body who had always been his intimate friend was deputed to speak to him on the subject of this strange alteration in him. It was very difficult to induce him to open his lips but after a long time and much pressing, he said, “Know then, I am every night pursued by a phantom. When the city clock(s) strike/struck 12 it emerges from the closet in my room opposite the foot of the bed and stands there until morning.” In reply to the question how this spectre was dressed, he said in green, with a high-crowned green hat. The student returned to his companions and they arranged among themselves that one of their number should be thus dressed and should be concealed in the place in question. After appearing and being supposed by the afflicted student to be the ghost, he would then reveal himself and so work his cure. Under this guise, on a certain night, the student was hidden in the ghost’s place with instructions to come forth when the city clocks struck 12. As the hour approached, he saw from his concealment that the sleeping student became frightfully agitated. When it struck and the other emerged, he raised himself in/on his bed with a distorted face, marked/wracked with every possible expression of horror, cried out in agony "My God, there are two", fell back and died. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Anecdote Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Anecdote', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/9324bdc1bd5d16802f52251667107c2f.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=TPdbee0vFHXWXhM93c4WR7ttbm7JXBz5-WPaQkY2x3NZ-GMYewLyXdBQKXiJ2odEBYBGq7LIDOMsmAsQfCUNEeJQA41hoK%7E4aG%7E4yNu0MsuyYJ%7EKP4IMnxsA2YRQZXmo39v86umpda%7Ef%7EJiWs3WMOQTuBKSN%7EnsznTfeUmVfQbBIOegeOOG7alJCrLCGyRvbdCxJ7Ft-lxWtPdFhgkbRrgZcZ2Tq8h3cQGeA3OeqtVQSIciHnXCW3Nf6RQZ7tvNNHTlJvweuKV0gjW83tZrUT7FNM%7EcKiXYU8JH9V0yRBnKN8sZdSpONyLPsxZHE6xv3lay6gc7d1K1UaHr6UnR6Lw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 3bd2c2b0a992761efed4e262d1d6eb36 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: David learns shorthand, from chapter 38 of David Copperfield Transcription: I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction. The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies’ legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not only troubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep. When I had groped my way, blindly, through these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyptian Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket, stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it; then, beginning again, I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: David learns shorthand Subject The topic of the resource David Copperfield shorthand shorthand learning Description An account of the resource Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of <em>David Copperfield</em>, in which David struggles to learn Brachygraphy shorthand Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context David Learns Shorthand.wav brachygraphy David Copperfield shorthand shorthand learning https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/b6a77281972e349fb545d6de17d709d5.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=dJi8eXbCUhcn-PfW1Q8zxYtWI36dnUNUODEYLSQAIh1QkvvOrabR-mWi-%7EVOvHPKHlYr0FXz1gdQeN3u3cIdEsfbLWYC8S9YhPqsN15b%7EcWa37jk7swAhrF-7Q-rkSa1q4l%7EHeEV396w2MifXlYJO7g706vHNdyglayMkW-J6OyBD6nAo0WX1N-D-8%7E2Gk6lRvkyhkv21ee-wOYqM4jnYWAm8OuumgEtaYe9YG7FYE2zez4Ra9sGXkbJ%7EQFjNvvopIZlAuzysyfuVT0p5XGM44tBxMiPilJz17VnM8zEQCvUPdjXvkJuK9gVzxarWi0A4Re%7E2YhIsqUesBKinZrz0A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM a7b9f4b1a63c3a1e85320a3cbbbb3558 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Dickens recalls his early experiences as a reporter Transcription: I have often transcribed for the printer from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which the strictest accuracy was required […] writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark lantern, in a post chaise and four, galloping through a wild country, all through the dead of night, at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Dickens recalls his early experiences as a reporter Subject The topic of the resource shorthand shorthand reporting Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes the difficulties of shorthand reporting on the move Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dickens Reporter in Carriage.wav shorthand shorthand reporting https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/526277e0eae192617d105be07423bedb.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=PSEIsuodQI7nftVz3oZlnk%7EYIe2iOv-Z7CSn8A6MJnN%7E3aIj3HRILSU83lW%7EUDwT8nmkP8RYRyW%7EqSHpkh0WQCX3n%7E2X1I0udQkm6WTLR%7ELqK2Uh7D69LxZ5wfjEdFITzjF1WvalXFUo8IniOOS5rHoEGPQWCLpdow9U9ta6tJX0w%7EIioUXh-SPM9ObS-kT1Z-znJ8iUcC0SFIH7vwzU-JgoTAm9NTc81l6hLt9-8fbShn3wJZdb71Xc22YIe7TABDSReG5vH2CE6EgSBmDv1ZX9HVoPCReXgoT3mfOFlUk4TiYaooU8hbJJuIhbOuiKO-tKWxnCA%7EqCrn473h1IMw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 29fba16becc2465e62cb0c5cc639e133 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Dickens recalls his time as a parliamentary reporter Transcription: I have worn my knees by writing on them on the old back row of the old gallery of the old House of Commons; and I have worn my feet by standing to write in a preposterous pen in the old House of Lords, where we used to be huddled together like so many sheep […] kept in waiting, say, until the woolsack might want re-stuffing. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Dickens recalls his time as a parliamentary reporter Subject The topic of the resource shorthand reporting parliament Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his experiences of parliamentary reporting Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Dickens the Parliamentary Reporter.wav parliament shorthand reporting https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/0c36d328e9fa1cffe245fde0b5ddae4e.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=EKKrchOGhGjoF0yeqpCkwD3LqCETUTrpehTm4555ObFzT7YIp8Q%7EYMMaOrmakoBRtFJzp4d3sV9DhCDgBRjIxYr5XFMpvqgysgI0knnXwFEE9kRl1I%7E1YUfLoTMMPIge9gC2fFHCeKvo8xRkFeakvFyKUNHnFl9yqM1D08CmMgZGvP5BNQWfu8I-EwaFkQBodKXLyvoW1Wq1VufBP1CBzGOEkDfOj1ctuYZWkenMzYUNNvZwiKR6XnuDXQaJY9-VWzep9vym9C7OQQE1jEc8RtC2LcNOBysyE5tHU24JxHAo1B8IMPmP1nSHhXDHbQc2Sv1XMsUxq6fvopwsqh8now__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 0d550fa4c29d70ae63418f21dd15a013 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Dickens talks about his lifelong relationship with shorthand in an 1865 speech to the Newspaper Press Fund Transcription: To this present year of my life, when I sit in this hall, or where not, hearing a dull speech—the phenomenon does occur—I sometimes beguile the tedium of the moment by mentally following the speaker in the old way; and sometimes, if you can believe me, I even find my hand going on the table cloth, taking an imaginary note of it all. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Dickens talks about his lifelong relationship with shorthand in an 1865 speech to the Newspaper Press Fund Subject The topic of the resource shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract from Dickens's 1865 ‘Speech to the Newspaper Press Fund’, in which he describes his habit of following speeches as if taking shorthand notes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Speech to Press Fund.wav shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/2c634b802717e54627fb139ecd2ece4d.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=vUFYHZIga%7ERAOwq7IWS4H4ajaskRMO-kr3Xq1MOpM-5QWynjrSMavAv1kgpdo4-fHhzA4pKUFKfllq0EIJXBL1j6P870wIN2EBRFc5tj-wi2TUAB5u3EkQPGRrUO8doZ8%7Eg7qu8VgnhQ6eIKFy2z1pjBDJsh-ZcJNi29I66Jc5Mgwbs5TqwIpmfljFyUDE%7EhfAyW4fsc7UAORjvjb%7E2%7EjUfqXAzR8TFFQlBDn9eR6tJJqCrABNAaexvXGR5Fg7-kEagMD-mDKNdrm4wIlb8yNfrtjgPQmO3Pgf%7EDF%7EHJa3UJVCRgPFbXC7liuaDB-9GuWoGXZTY9lBLq8q271Aekcw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 77c48206350dccd129ab83fedcbc543b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Dickens shorthand aide-mémoire from the 1867 pocket diary Transcription: Xmas 1855 Of all men I know that whatever little motes my beamy eyes may have descried in theirs they belong to a wide generous large-hearted and great people. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:24 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Dickens's shorthand aide-mémoire from the 1867 pocket diary Subject The topic of the resource shorthand speech Description An account of the resource Reading of a quotation that Dickens noted down in his Pocket Diary, to use in a later speech Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context aide-memoire.wav shorthand speech https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/063b72efd6b4aad426d034cbe166619e.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=XW74TuUB1OOZH6%7EMUS88zoJ1x5xgNsFoE-k1lUzsNFsCkBdmIRdMKUrOqecmK%7EhxI%7ETMxuPQG2JL5ufsro%7EZpGUrWucj136%7E9wTi3mk-9rPbZk39NPA6a2T7uVd6neLmP5Xd4%7EUckEaSdM%7EPwlUAxyP3-ki7jeR0Ki2qBPmDAfgUkkzdt-U%7EIreNvrm12R6bNgYmLsB6AC%7EwwvbqRN77z5ij-yIDpqw7j66CSvHeUevoIPu7400RQLP4cvz4NjgHQKFrRGvv4GTkiGgnH%7EmAsmjn3pBy1svhjcWo%7E-avB3EiSnaNzEnMONJ72QIJ-euiXc6ceGOpZ8l1WwZgIcA9fg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 77b0e954217e9008a31d99a056fa2319 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Didactic Transcription: Although the forms of religious belief in the world are almost innumerable it is probable that their grounds and foundations are very few. One constantly recognises the same idea reappearing under diverse terms from the time of the old heathen mythology even to the present day. This is always observable in the superstitions of mankind. It is, or it would seem to be, so extremely difficult to separate the old notions altogether from new. […] Thus no one can visit Rome, the headquarters of all degrading superstition and fail to see incorporated into the purity and beauty of Christianity the pagan ceremonies of ages ago. Just as many of the Christian churches in Rome are built upon ruins of the old temples, so many of the practices retained in them and made articles of religious faith ought to have perished and forever vanished from sight in the light of the Christian dispensation, but still encumber them, the mere dust and ashes of a rotten and dead people. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Didactic Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Didactic', a shorthand dictation exercise from the notebooks of Dickens's shorthand pupil Arthur Stone Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Didactic.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/2071d50ee832c44904b80aadfdc4096a.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=vf4LwwmCzbiWQfaeUeaQev8VwxV3Ku2%7EySh76tO025HzXeHVgaZom9kn%7Ey-adQEWngEvFEtUIytuYXGGGmJvqhs38YZDUFRFj%7EbGSAxfDwMEOkxQZqD5ynK3ttNr3s2Nrtr2oexKt08TmUZyS6mQS7DtiYhfDcSriatUofTeRMfFmGdVeiw-XJLuTpUXpC6ixeZAv1uN5Tg4HAiISQ8bP1d1Nwo6MGwykFey9tMkVgU2NE1G8OxBfSE7pcYh82n6gXss40lag-rgLBt%7E629MNpoiGx%7ECqi6q3MPrWHvlmS0vOjfWS-7WLnfRQRTjVFJ7hS0tTMKyWhlQCvcfN8VBEQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 906a75d81cb9bc17b171a410d9a8d1b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Henry Fielding Dickens reminisces about learning shorthand with his father Transcription: These lessons were great fun, though I found it was by no means an easy science to learn […] To take down a speech quickly and correctly you must have all your faculties in perfect order, and that is where I experienced a special difficulty in my own case. This arose from the kind of speeches which my father delivered for me to practise on, speeches which shortly reduced my mind to a state of wild confusion. They were of the character you would expect from a street tub orator or from a speaker on the hustings or a parody of orations in the House of Commons. These soon reduced me almost to a state of collapse in consequence of the laughter which followed on them; and when I say laughter, I mean laughter on the part of both of us. For he himself, tickled by the ridiculous nature of his own fancies, gave way to fits of laughter only equalled by wild bursts on my part. This part of my training was most amusing, but was not productive of much progress. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Henry Fielding Dickens reminisces about learning shorthand with his father Subject The topic of the resource shorthand shorthand learning dictation Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract in which Dickens's son recalls lessons with his father Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Henry Dickens.wav shorthand shorthand learning https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/93a8f88fe777ffde183747fda9498b93.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=sPNO4kV3woic1rNA-XE5RIujiIU6lC33GgZT8qF3hlL9THnbBqIAt-HcvBsmmVN46YbGlRqUmXE4EFF2KcuVlpFTMEWvgFDfzQGYaYBzK7PXJzFNiv15ixIBr5zpG-6%7ExndZTUCk9-AsT6R41Gw-XEv3yoaccF0wmxd84Jn9rbLj3Nd1dhAV8yzM36aClDHaaN02rpVS8FyBZijyglnUTO-YAbOAKi6fwSUMbdOJkunS-ZYfgVUP2ODLlXcnkdfjXjlalQOSfnubY1NSvp63CfoSUkVIRGwMfUneP69FHkDQE8GULy2UQg3HjyNgFJGEcdExw3Sj%7ES3-FNWwp5bhuw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8147af33e7207f574497e4faf5c195e9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: John Cayford (the ‘original’ for Joe Gargery), on Dickens writing shorthand Transcription: Sometimes in the middle of a conversation he’d out with a piece of paper, or a notebook, and commence making the most extraordinary marks. Mr Dickens used to tell me it was the devil’s handwriting. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 0:25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: John Cayford (the ‘original’ for Joe Gargery), on Dickens writing shorthand Subject The topic of the resource shorthand devil's handwriting Description An account of the resource Reading of an extract in which John Cayford recalls Dickens describing his shorthand as the 'devil's handwriting' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this recording in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/wav Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context John Cayford.wav devil's handwriting shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/99b8742ab924381e29a034ba6a735ca7.wav?Expires=1784764800&Signature=TumS3rYcetqjaRlCXPSM-JSqeop%7E50GBUcbqN7Tng23uLkX6xXXYJz57BLa2fjvD1SuA7DW%7EPiVDYhmrNnXWu9x90JOpsT8QqCaa86T8skQP7o-eON4O81C7YYgxo-1P-kTYP7R5RMFOnhYknS2n4R0FUSOKyF2crmJgGe%7EQVyt9ni8omjsv6qlAUhCVUs39IHdzJExvmA9PIuX8FzfZKz7QlQvFN38WVOn%7EOQviLLyjC0uKXqfT1EMUNHXaPPjqURbIdLzEJwdXZYOq1e6ZEI1otySeV20GZvCls-z2kwK3e9Tub9bA6-cCeXPy063dqgUf0V3pL6CATd%7EDrv6H6w__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5d84f96b9ba802a10f6362379b95b609 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Exhibition audio Description An account of the resource Recordings made by actor and musician Dominic Gerrard to support the 'Decoding Dickens' exhibition.<br /><ul><li>Find out more about Dominic's work: <a href="http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.dominicgerrard.co.uk/</a></li> <li>Listen to Dominic's podcast, 'Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire!': <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1897197</a></li> </ul> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrard, Dominic Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2023 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use these recordings in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Credit: Dominic Gerrard Language A language of the resource English Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Title: Nelson Transcription: There are some circumstances connected with the death of Nelson which are always interesting as having in them a kind of alternative picture of the events of the day. Thus when the Admiral persists in his usual courtly custom of dressing himself in full uniform with gold lace, silk stockings and God knows what orders and decorations, he is warned by his officers most emphatically that his life is particularly sought by the French and that he exposes himself to very great danger. It is represented to him that the enemy has a new custom of carrying riflemen in the tops of his ships and that by making himself conspicuous to the meanest observation as the Admiral of the Fleet, he hazards his safety and, necessarily with it, the fortune of the day. Apart from these representations no man can better know the real extent of the danger of such a practice than the great man to whom they were made because it is a fact in his history that he had always opposed himself to this use of the rifle as cowardly and cruel. Nevertheless he persists, is shot in the back and is killed. After he has been taken below in a dying state the old quarter master on board the Victory who is standing on the poop by the wheel says to a midshipman that there is a man in a blouse whom he has seen hiding on the main top of the ship to which the Victory is lashed yard arm to yard arm who fired at and struck down the Admiral as he saw with his eyes. During the remainder of the progress of the fight the two men watch for this man. In the moment of his emerging from behind some concealment of rigging or sail the quarter master points up and cries out “There he is”. In the same moment the quarter master falls shot by the same man through the mouth. In the same moment the midshipman fires and is so convinced that he has hit the man that as soon as possible after the battle is over he climbs onto that main top to see. Sure enough there he finds the man lying dead with a ball in his heart. It is a circumstance not belonging to this story but not un-BLANK of the delicacy or want of delicacy of the time that Nelson’s body was said to have been conveyed to Gibraltar in a cask of rum and that any really or pretendedly choice rum offered on the market for a long time afterwards was called 'The Admiral'. But it is easier to transmit the weaknesses and grimness of men’s bodies than the worth of their souls and so a tale of fiction may have had some foundation of truth in it. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:38 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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