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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: Traddles helps David improve his shorthand dictation skills, from chapter 38 of David Copperfield Transcription: I resorted to Traddles for advice; who suggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, and with occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness. Very grateful for this friendly aid, I accepted the proposal; and night after night, almost every night, for a long time, we had a sort of Private Parliament in Buckingham Street […] I should like to see such a Parliament anywhere else! My aunt and Mr. Dick represented the Government or the Opposition (as the case might be), and Traddles, with the assistance of Enfield’s Speakers, or a volume of parliamentary orations, thundered astonishing invectives against them. Standing by the table, with his finger in the page to keep the place, and his right arm flourishing above his head, Traddles, as Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Burke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Sidmouth, or Mr. Canning, would work himself into the most violent heats, and deliver the most withering denunciations of the profligacy and corruption of my aunt and Mr. Dick; while I used to sit, at a little distance, with my notebook on my knee, fagging after him with all my might and main. […] Often and often we pursued these debates until the clock pointed to midnight, and the candles were burning down. The result of so much good practice was, that by and by I began to keep pace with Traddles pretty well, and should have been quite triumphant if I had had the least idea what my notes were about. But, as to reading them after I had got them, I might as well have copied the Chinese inscriptions of an immense collection of tea-chests, or the golden characters on all the great red and green bottles in the chemists’ shops! Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:53 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: Traddles helps David improve his shorthand dictation skills Subject The topic of the resource David Copperfield shorthand dictation shorthand learning Description An account of the resource Reading of a passage from chapter 38 of <em>David Copperfield</em>, in which David's friend Tommy Traddles helps him to practice writing shorthand by dictating speeches 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 Traddles helps David.wav brachygraphy David Copperfield dictation shorthand shorthand learning https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/75805e1cf4d57a145acb4c2ba958776d.wav?Expires=1787788800&Signature=S1JPgsfmvXapMsoNp9g0y9yY81NoQiqkx%7Ew%7EWfn8DAyPYZOpyLUT9BqVDvwr33W1Hqgfonu7mcQPUOvSrfZwvJCvJPmubj8IRyFQBXll2XcxY6wTGNxiJSTRti1rm1GRGUdCVJcwhMhvJg3qVKr5ZvTxg7aW1gJJnYAqUfm-YNDgmWb6DIqyVd-IfLdCJh6g6EMrgizC%7ElNeqzjszVYJaPNhi31Qs2Su7UBY6mWLuygyJJCyxGS6LEZPpw89vSEKzY5ZMCynkeqyp-FU2OrSUyU9KmAHeVEdGETSjogWkty20lUIsbgK2ibUAg3mrjt72JhWsUkxPB2UAhpbJH0nJQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 71ad815916172db1bce16a92c3a48311 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: Travelling Transcription: I suppose the mere act of travelling is not very likely to open a man’s mind or amend and enlarge his spirit if he be conceited and shut up within himself and his own good opinion of himself in the beginning. As it would be of small advantage to a man to live in a house with 10,000 windows if he never looked out of one of them, so a man who goes around the world constantly shut up in his own self-satisfactions and prejudices can get very little out of it. Indeed, it may be said of such people that they cannot see anything for themselves. They are always in their own way. They themselves are the obstacle always interposed between their own mental state and the object. Without reflection and abstraction from self it may be questioned whether any tangible object in the universe is capable of producing a very beneficial effect on the mind. Mount Vesuvio for example is a vast and always changing mass of fire and cinders. There is nothing much more remarkable in that ipso facto than there would be in a gigantic gas works. It is when a man BLANK himself to consider that an action he beholds in that mountain is the action of prodigious forces pent up in the recesses of the earth and heaving and working there from the dawn of creation to the present hour that the importance and beauty and grandeur of what he sees impress him adequately. The falls of Niagara are but so many thousand million gallons of water but the consideration that a great river is throwing itself over a certain rock and that in the course of ages it must wear the rock away and change the whole face of the country thereabouts is quite another thing. We must all put something of ourselves into everything we see and if we do not so train ourselves so that we have something to put some bank to draw upon some capital to invest nothing can have the charms for us that it is meant to have. Consequently, it is always possible for civilised men to conceive how little interesting nature is to the savage and how very small an appreciation he has of her wonders and beauties distanced from his wants and appetites. But this is in fact one of the main reasons for his being the monotonous, indolent stupid brute he always is for any purpose other than his own immediate personal wants. There is yet another kind of man to whom travelling can be of little service. I allude to the kind of man who, when he sees a remarkable thing, thinks not of the thing itself but of what he should say of it. A state of mind so excessively selfish and despicable that I think on the whole I would rather travel with a BLANK young Whig or even a prejudiced old one than with a person from whom so little improvement is to be got and from whom such constant annoyance is to be derived. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 3:04 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: Travelling Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Travelling', 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 Travelling.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/ccab00b6f7b10f5be502beb16b14f1b7.wav?Expires=1787788800&Signature=HajKKrOKtcdAcBPQwd%7E6iC79S5UkrqeRZgDHdOGpgdU-56sBR0jaokqPuBF40seLgjhA%7EuB7nMB7r7BHehCtwPsNTdXsPyidRtRVs-M5YGYz888eZrL4cVqOPnL7ZxKHHhRPizexIU5pTEUQMvjvN896dj0pHzvWBsD4f1pfUk4AAFByVI%7EvEi7JJRUDC7hP3gbHUI2pC7e-bIDd3Q1ry7UBTjlsgtZ8QPT2sb43rB9IWAIcGo6pi193lDTFnrXmKHyGoh23%7ElzT3f5EBdinR3ztsaBf-x4ob44oEoiqMFAOLvPsECyax41WqfeQOpPVtgzgJC5QerdmQeYla2lHAw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 2c56fd9d9ff72033d1f6aa86ad9f5acb 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: The Two Brothers Transcription: I once heard a story when I was living in Scotland from the mouth of a deceased judge which struck my imagination very forcibly. He told it by the dying light of a wood fire with a high wind roaring outside. I ought to premise that he had been counsel in an action that afterwards shared of the gains attending a will made by one of the wards. This is the story: There were two old bachelor brothers of whom one reposed at Slough and the other at London. They were in the habit of visiting each other for a week or so at a time. It happened that the Slough brother, being on one of these visits to the London brother, felt rather unwell said ‘I will go home. My old housekeeper will help me. I shall soon be all right and will then come back. Once again they parted. A few nights afterwards, the London brother being in bed and finding himself uncomfortable and unable to sleep, lighted a candle and composed himself to read. Suddenly the door of his room opened and an appearance of his brother, dressed in white, pale and looking very attentively at him. He spoke to the figure but it made no answer. So it passed on to the end of the room turned and went out at the door. The London brother’s immediate impression was that his mind was ill, had some fullness of blood in the region of the brain and had best be bled. So he put on his dressing gown to call up his servant., he heard the sound of a carriage in the street which came over and stopped at his door. On his opening the window and asking who was there, he was answered ‘A messenger to take you to your brother who is very ill and supposed to be dying.’ Of course, he accompanied the messenger instantly. When he arrived in his brother’s room, there were several people present. On sight of them all, the brother rose in his bed with difficulty and spoke these words: ‘John, you have seen me before tonight and you know it!’ With that, he fell back on his pillow and never spoke another word. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2:21 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: The Two Brothers Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'The Two Brothers', 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 The Two Brothers.wav deciphered shorthand