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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/0c36d328e9fa1cffe245fde0b5ddae4e.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=Uxv6wqkWc424zQ-hjv4JgByzU0ar09uKqe4-GrMhrsrOK4cpeUxHl%7E%7E7mj5%7EvhQyg8Tk6%7E8RYPChs5-QQr9Fb1ixGqOOafVS%7EJqyomuzHMsdtQUfLzQFGQUaahl719aUF%7En-UHdOX6Arq4BrVCcEB9TrzYlsx-hJwu1OVPNhLu2TanngYflAfYzrl2ki04Nl0jBYdfNzTv7yv%7E4h7rPYhuuYCf%7ELkt57UuPudflt40D0nwYAAhhgaQZkdmGIME81agiQ4hkG6kBMZbc9WT44FzyIAf2phEng7gVZpA3nRadvc5zVLgW6ouJgzXeb-ceKk%7EeBUFnE1rN4UTHOc4vTyA__&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/2071d50ee832c44904b80aadfdc4096a.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=kEfQd6s-GeLHJ7EIuxP11XKHfE-83iDTatrWzRNym50jRT5Oj7vam3ufeiaunmGDZb21UTGV514Fl5IgTW%7EJYsvVtUYiNW8860WAQ0-fBJ6Ap2SjVeH3aB6jxzZz--Y-WUHUeLLxDpmfOV8qQAjGMdBYvsV93l-HsJiSm62CWRWbEnLowOcarjZzk6qEkpHtQKSiyOH8VkMnvD-aqQpq8qloE4w4mW74LcfAQaZ11kU7d1akJmIhOiMXly51mS4KpbiwrQoc7SbfrNBqQwKZigfeDb5cBrBQUeYkI1e65mL1LufurruHfSVnczWoUGdP8LtwaFHwPsUMUjiZKsgq9g__&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/ccab00b6f7b10f5be502beb16b14f1b7.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=ug-Xs4VFk5gK4uzIPH5jrbQzdKPDUMywebSTuGEet3hggFnNurp3tdHpO4iOET73s3AVgQXKfh7Kgk0VLDvd1XXPIiACL8n4ZmFek108T2MY0aEc0v54keTVEcKkY39jTlFm0wwNUjnb-KoWiONpZvifYN6iUSVryMz11zBHoV61-DWaJM-2KAogVRDsnDDc0NKlrr0olKCyJ6XyMTvp0-FZEawvfn36iCTnJ0AbKTT1kyRR3RI8TAiULDrKhhmlPFmxqNSWfq47FkZXd%7EHrGJav%7EZ3%7Ez-GuOcetctSneHygfqgKHfvS7SXPJ3U00jllQYpIkgi3FB%7Ec-TjX31aL0w__&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 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/99b8742ab924381e29a034ba6a735ca7.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=jBNi3Fk17otrSAOsmBONiBAl2WmdD7Ba1eqxVknMocQYoiRk1Dk%7EJnJr86Al9FMiamB4PJ4SBGbkWXM5Pz%7EXzwuaC1bLPsnJBm80BmbUDnV13g7%7EnwXG-SfhE3Mi6m6g3eDSfk4Wufmi3phnnr7MGx0cYbCXNwoUNzpAYbhoBceLaAw4qOvXXA95wn1tAAac1dQnmQNgj1gd9eQDQJkK4h7UvbGLxQOnBcvMGKKoGHFZOCoVW8EXpR2XLMXw-aBwXmDpbjtjK2hQJnwylMEzQbjGt85sSiVEecbGdjYlPhMouF7YkuFqacpCVHBOB%7ECkoyoTvdcsToHbK-GaMleIjg__&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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Title A name given to the resource Audio recording: Nelson Subject The topic of the resource deciphered shorthand Description An account of the resource Reading of 'Nelson', 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 Nelson.wav deciphered shorthand https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/75805e1cf4d57a145acb4c2ba958776d.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=b6DS7007qjOLoocM7NUdg%7Ecav1oXYshuFTbEn584i%7E%7Eju7aDekwh1TPjvNzwyz7Mi0Fw547yVmOeJmdyDzJZq43KA0NKq2-A53IhVMJqEFmN0KvdOEpZVGKIsC8I8S1Mj-RjEQJHxN5JCPlNoyTmPG7Ob7lLRG2lxQtq5umhiMwrOJL3vB4nqZOvaKMBhyTamyzieROISohzonJwdroGfU-N63R8xIhnUDhVMdBJCLMcEI0y5ZAUT84mS7lU6k0%7ELooLhPNmcZaLoVclNC0XXlPddF6nKLNzapKEYr9wuG5LGf%7Eh9jQHXS66rxIZ6XKSXwKNp8X8fcmHsX-6pJib3g__&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/063b72efd6b4aad426d034cbe166619e.wav?Expires=1789603200&Signature=nxHdJDYxtTLIASv75E3e3ozh3K6hj2JbTFTBbI-n-0ybIL%7ErRqd-OhGTNt7ZeBZ3jZvh-esTKm-J7T3IJHZpwT%7EmrsNSWQMWeSg-R2Tq82ogZiwKJdbbwr9iMif7hQonqNlTJhI45SyFLPR3vhNoF85UaZFMVI5shSx24C4-DobLRRsFmPqQfIkSpzsbkMTf1rvwffp6Qy6Kr1NN3SR%7E%7Ee5L43uca4EDW9FgU1opPV-RC001vUQxJS48VtOqochS-AlySeOsofQYe8n36nFQ2D4-E4G1D%7EIzN2T50AV8RjquioC1mtnNT0cB07tsYj3Y-8wD1Y3knJevLpBy%7EPAKJA__&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/253cb423bace3bb0efbbc3b4f3e954f0.mp3?Expires=1789603200&Signature=nH%7EJnLELG8yhcOfelkkEIOROaaBe1xTzY%7EcboRfEclRJRUdOnna64VxvJHTLUYeC1IN7BSUyBZQ48dZsTTd57zkcDFZZACAyEBrhsDDSHVE-3xu0AcpTHDF8TroJ8IErlsKZhyQ-CUDiMAN6DrWS1IMU75xrSwIJqnQaPwADuerCBixi7WU1A0Qxy0mUS%7EFtYSZC8glyqpstyI8xGqxWMyKRAv78%7EgH9FF2pgfFsAYA9rQalxC9cLADcgtJxNpw4m2LIEqm68zJ30AL40HaBIupSwWBuOmOKb7Qu8D8DHK04XSGK-MKVB%7ELulPcJjqB%7EgTxrAk4awWLqYjHypnZtyw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ec3337812b5cb41c1fca0b4b5441b282 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: 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/d7ea9ea3ee162ff4d830a1d8ef0b5cc6.jpg?Expires=1789603200&Signature=Mnh5E3Zi16T%7ED5Bv329ZI2a2FklchzCJmxumKzoyRwwF4FevmHdxviQq27aA4IcXN70KXyMWzc4bq-QPXtUxshQq%7EwKhAS%7Ee8TEHFnMOQYyNSJg1uuuYgV--BlTwtjyFWVJ19YqWyY8JY3xvi1rUEi-aOv8BgDeJXOTTnoICjVAxGLb9kNo%7Euc3zPYAtVhFyzbeJu-QQAub5lvSuybK7%7EBslhxrn4o89PhDuoPyhppzO6LNqMD2zf6g1LXcC0gaZUW1q7gqb--%7E6b7APxz4jzsypgYJY9zXo6HMNWCngijvfAcWKBklxZX-wKXH%7Et%7EZKwsiOXoWtCDcLij-5Pm1iHg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 25db5711f943ce92152236068ed8aa9b 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 A card with rounded edges. In the left margin sideways print reads 'Photographed and Published by J. Gurney & Son, 5th Ave. Cor. 16th St. New York'. On the card a photograph of an ageing man in duplicate side-by-side. He stands, his left hand on his hip and right on the back of a chair. He is dressed in a wide sleeved robe, a waistcoat embellished with a watch and chain, a collared shirt, necktie and trousers. The photograph shows him to the thigh. He gazes to the left of the camera with neutral expression. He is balding with greying wiry hair curling at his temples, a moustache, and beard with clean shaven sideburns. 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 Charles Dickens Museum, London Description An account of the resource Material from the archives of the Charles Dickens Museum, London, including the newly digitised Carlton papers. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Charles Dickens Museum, London Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource nineteenth century twentieth century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Please seek further permission from the Museum to reuse these images. Language A language of the resource English Brachygraphy shorthand Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data stereoscopic photograph 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 Stereopticon photograph of Charles Dickens in 1867 Subject The topic of the resource stereoscopic photograph New York Charles Dickens Description An account of the resource A stereoscopic photograph of Charles Dickens in later life published by J. Gurney and Son Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gurney, J., and Son Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Charles Dickens Museum, London [E198.1] Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available J. Gurney and Son Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1867 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the Charles Dickens Museum, London. Please seek further permission from the Museum to reuse this image. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context E198.1 Charles Dickens New York stereoscopic photograph https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/77037/archive/files/b86d588d3fb4108265658304091a5859.jpg?Expires=1789603200&Signature=iP3X1jwoOTMiL5JZCM6W-svU7kq02qLH6trU2sy-s7pSAhebCCdb7H3bVNCynXM0pfpTHmRRmAZPtpOPEy-sA5O81moEWbdP2u-OU1k6m49gXnxdL%7E2toF59UpJU7e6EDjSXRnwLDkAFsgwOLa9rDo6XDXutlv8i6tqRnC7hrIhfJ%7EyH9K7vadAUPmsanzLWI7-4rCnhkWIIvZLqSZVvefTAsLAdvHLrSzbkn6jUEWtouSM9C%7E61RPdzm1dmxtRbd%7Ear-PYjwW%7EraM8bPWS6OWRDQrsZiBU5vbzVjYEJ%7EDjkB1QFLDee4S8HQN8WQXG63cpThjXO70iicpWxXjxcbw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5bee2b51a6940d67ce23d85c54ccd07f 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 A page in a book. The paper shows age staining. On the page is printed a table divided into four columns, with the first column further subdivided in two. Above the table is the number one in brackets. The table has three headings: 'Alphabet', 'Letters' and 'Words'. A slim column on the far left shows simple Brachygraphy symbols. The second column shows alphabet characters and words that the symbol can also stand for. The next column provides examples of the Gurney spellings of words, eliminating duplicate letters and internal vowels (i.e. 'assault' becomes 'aslt'). The next column spells the word out using joined shorthand symbols. The final column translates the joined shorthand character back into a longhand word. 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 Private collections Description An account of the resource Material from various private collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource nineteenth century twenty-first century Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Various. Please consult individual items for details. Language A language of the resource English Brachygraphy shorthand Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data manuals (instructional materials) 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 Alphabet Table from Gurney's <em>Brachygraphy</em> manual Subject The topic of the resource brachygraphy shorthand manuals (instructional materials) Gurney Description An account of the resource A table of shorthand symbols for letters of the alphabet, words that the same symbols can stand for, and spelt characters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gurney, Thomas Gurney, Joseph Gurney, William Brodie Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Brachygraphy, or, an Easy and Compendious System of Shorthand</em>, Sixteenth Edition (London: Saunders and Benning, 1835), private collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Saunders and Benning Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1835 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this image in accordance with the license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource English Brachygraphy shorthand Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context BrachygraphyAlphabetTable brachygraphy Gurney manuals (instructional materials) shorthand