Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Weber State University, Special Collections, via AP This 1948 police booking photo courtesy of Weber State University, Special Collections, shows Rossette ...

But shorthand is still mandatory in some professions. The National Council for the Training of Journalists insists trainees achieve a written speed of 100 words per minute to pass its diploma. It ...

Shorthand has been around since the 1800s and has helped journalists in tricky situations over the years. But this is 2017. And in an age where we rely on our digital tools more than ever before, how ...

The mysterious marginalia found in a 16th-century edition of Homer's Odyssey has been identified by a digital humanities student from the Archivio di Stato di Milano in Italy. Michelle Starr Science ...

A reporter’s shorthand notes of a telephone conversation led a press regulator to reject a complaint from a road safety campaigner that a newspaper had inaccurately attributed comments to him. Paul ...

Undergraduate Jonny Woods and theology professor Steve Holmes are the first to read Fuller’s sermons in 200 years. For years, scholars have been tantalized by Andrew Fuller’s sermon notes. They’re ...

For more than 2,000 years people have used shorthand to make note-taking quicker and more reliable. It's a skill that has weathered being banned by a Roman emperor and associations with witchcraft, ...