Claire Tomalin’s Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week from Monday 6th January and you can listen to it online here.
Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Claire Tomalin’s Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self is BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week from Monday 6th January and you can listen to it online here.
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First Reading
Leonard Dribinsky • Link
BBC Radio 4 has moved on to a new book. Is there some way to go to an archive and listen to Clair Tomalin?
Phil • Link
It doesn't appear Radio 4 archive Book of the Week, so it doesn't look like you can hear it now.
N Keeling • Link
I am trying to find a copy of Shelton's Code as used by Samuel Pepys for a lesson I want to deliver for an interview can you help
PS useful website thanks
Phil Gyford • Link
You might find this useful: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famo…
Here's the first activity sheet it mentions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famo…
That sheet suggests the shorthand is as simple as a symbol for each letter, but it was more complicated than that. There were two books of the period by Thomas Shelton called 'A Tutor to Tachygraphy, or, Short-Writing' (1642) and 'Tachygraphy' (1647) which were re-printed in one volume in 1970 by The Augustan Reprint Society. It's now out of print but you might be able to track one down somewhere.