Name: Take Note. A Nimble History of Shorthand
SKU: 67235453
Price: 42.95 NZD
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Author: Andrew Hill
ISBN: 9781805226178

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Take Note. A Nimble History of Shorthand

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Author

Andrew Hill

Year

2026

Pages

224

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

19.8x12.9 cm

ISBN13

9781805226178

Take Note. A Nimble History of Shorthand

Andrew Hill (Author) · Profile Books Ltd · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Take Note. A Nimble History of Shorthand"

Cicero's scribe invented it. Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens and even Sylvia Plath used it. Rivalries, adulteries and actual martyrdoms arose from it. Spycraft was reliant on it, courtroom dramas were changed by it, and feminism has an uneasy debt to it. But today, its continuing existence is at risk. So, what exactly is shorthand? What has it given us? And what would we lose if this world-changing technology disappeared? Andrew Hill follows the story from the scribes of Ancient Rome to today's takeover of AI, revealing how a system of symbols invented to speedily transcribe speech shaped the modern world and can still offer a valuable way to record, store and recall our brightest ideas today.