Like it or not, we spend our working lives in our own typing pool, without a Gal Friday to help us out. And with more reasons to type than ever – email, instant messaging – people are getting up to ...

In 1943 my first job was in the typing pool of the Milk Marketing Board, Thames Ditton. There were about 30 manual typewriters, mostly Imperials with 12 inch carriages and a few with 24 inch carriages ...

Editor’s Note: Good Grief, I keep on receiving emails from folks who like my mother’s “How it was” articles on her first job as a shorthand typist [see Life in the typing pool (I) and Life in the ...

Throughout much of the 20th century—and long before the digital revolution—generations of women found employment in typing pools. A strict and disciplined environment, the typing pool saw dozens of ...