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 ...
The editor-in-chief of the UK’s biggest news agency has said job applications he receives without shorthand go “straight in the bin” as the skill’s necessity for journalists was the subject of ...
A couple of weeks ago a Daily Telegraph reporter (take a bow, Christopher Hope) tape-recorded a conversation over lunch with Lord Young. The result: Young was forced to step down from his advisory ...