Fifty Mysterious Postcards

Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard

Kathryn Baird (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2022
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80399-046-0 (ISBN)

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Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand

The lines, circles, ticks, hooks, dots and dashes of Pitman shorthand used by some postcard writers during the early twentieth century are obscure to most people. Could the mysterious messages contain scandalous gossip, tales of adventure or declarations of undying love?

Fifty Mysterious Postcards presents fascinating examples from the ‘Golden Age’ of the postcard, each with a message written in the dying art of Pitman shorthand. The rules of Pitman have changed since the postcards were written and posted over 100 years ago, but careful transcription has unlocked their meaning to bring stories of penfriends, sweethearts, holidays and the First World War to life once more.

Kathryn Baird learnt to write Pitman Shorthand in the 1970s and taught it in the 1980s after qualifying to teach in Further Education. She has worked as a Medical Secretary, a Lecturer in FE, and a school teacher and examiner. She became fascinated by the mysterious shorthand messages used on so many postcards and has collected and transcribed over 300 postcards with Pitman messages. Her transcription of a 1915 diary was covered by the BBC and several newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, in 2019. She lives in Peterborough.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	99 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80399-046-5 / 1803990465
ISBN-13	978-1-80399-046-0 / 9781803990460
Zustand	Neuware