A. A. Milne: Writer of ‘Winnie the Pooh’ & a Fan of Sherlock Holmes

  Alan Alexander Milne (AA Milne) is best known for his children’s stories featuring Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Continue reading →

Sherlock Holmes’s Dogs

I don’t know about you, but sometimes when life gets a bit much I need some puppy love to keep Continue reading →

‘It’s a glorious place’ – Conan Doyle and Portsmouth

The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Richard Lancelyn Green Bequest is a fantastic source of material for all Sherlockians and Doyleans Continue reading →

CSI: From Sherlock Holmes to the 21st Century Detective

October 31st is Halloween and this year it coincided with half term school holidays in Hampshire. The Portsmouth City Museum Continue reading →

The Man Behind Watson’s Literary Agent

George Newnes was the man responsible for The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly whose pages bore the Sherlock Holmes stories from Adventures Continue reading →

The Creeping Man Manuscript

Doing a PhD can be hectic and a little stressful because often you are trying to juggle a thousand things Continue reading →

A Case of Identity Fraud

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote ‘A Case of Identity’ (IDEN) in 1891; it is a story of Mary Sutherland, a middle Continue reading →

The Problem With Popularity

Being the author of Sherlock Holmes must have been exhausting for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It seems it didn’t matter Continue reading →