The famous author wrote many notes in a personalised form of shorthand
The Dickens Code project, led by the University of Leicester's Dr Claire Wood, sought help to solve the mystery.
Dr Wood has now won a Times Higher Education Award for the project, which saw more than 1,000 volunteers from across the world come forward. The project prompted a worldwide effort by academics and the general public to decode Charles Dickens's handwritten notes. With their help, the project decoded one of his papers known as the Tavistock letter, which was written in Dickens's own brand of adapted shorthand,The university, in collaboration with the University of Foggia in Italy, took home the Research Project of the Year trophy for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the awards.
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