The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

Susan Day, a 35-year-old sophomore at Carroll Community College, entered the college’s eighth annual typing-shorthand derby April 27 “just for fun.” She wound up winning the first-place plaque for the ...

While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...

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 ...

Doing history is not always like solving a puzzle. Sometimes it's about looking for something you're not sure exists or putting on a show, or simply reading and thinking. But for a group of Brown ...