Sir Nigel
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Way back in the 80s I read The White Company and Sir Nigel, and I've been collecting Conan Doyle ever since. My other account is: @villagepoet.bsky.social which gives you poetry, books and photography.
When I read a Sherlock Holmes story I read it from this book. It has all the illustrations which gives it a kind of memory of the age. I bought it new and it remains a favourite from my collection, one I would never sell. Omega Books, 1st in this edition, 1986. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #booksky
NEW EPISODE: The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia, with Alexis Barquin and Mark Chadderton. We speak with Alexis and Mark about the origins of the Encyclopaedia, what it reveals about ACD's life and work, and plans for the future. bit.ly/DOD76sn Next time, The Mazarin Stone... #ArthurConanDoyle
Sherlock's case, solved today. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #holmes #showcase #booksky #noAI #myphotos
Oooh - this is going to be worth checking out!
British Online Archives (BOA)@boapublishing.bsky.social · 2w agoNew primary source collection coming soon—The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930. Associated, famously, with Sherlock Holmes, The Strand became a British cultural institution, blending literary sophistication with broad, popular appeal. Learn more at buff.ly/99WFqyn.
Interesting piece in a Lincolnshire paper in 1931 - finding an 1890 letter from Doyle offering 'Sign of Four' for serialization. #sherlock 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/07/coul...
Could've read it in the Spalding Guardian!
Here's an intriguing little article I found on the work Doyle did to find publication homes for 'The Sign of the Four'. The article was publ...
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I rather enjoyed reading this. Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims, Bloomsbury, 2017. #theoldoakcase #booksky #conandoyle #biography
Yesterday I said I would post some photos from the the exhibition at New York's Grolier Club in 2022. Here are some pirated Holmes editions. I will post more soon! (BTW: I am the author of Titan Books' latest Sherlock Holmes novel: amzn.to/4vFWfBL)
This arrived today. Murder by Decree on Blu-ray. Christopher Plummer & James Mason with Genevieve Bujold, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, Frank Finlay, Anthony Quayle, Susan Clarke... I've never seen this, so tonight it's curry, beer, and Holmes. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #jacktheripper #film
The Complete Brigadier Gerard. Edited and introduced by Owen Dudley Edwards. Canongate Classics [57], reprinted 1996. These I enjoy reading more than the Sherlock Holmes stories. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #brigadiergerard #booksky
Finally invested in the complete 14 Rathbone #Sherlock films in Blu-ray - starting with Hound of course. I’m enjoying the wonderful David Stuart Davies voice providing commentary. ❤️
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns... #conandoyle #theoldoakcase #framed #throughthemagicdoor #221b #bakerstreet #library #booksky #shelfie
My newest Dr Watson autograph arrived from the UK today. Not bad shape for 1945. #SherlockHolmes #DrWatson #NigelBruce
Remembering classic actors Basil Rathbone 🇬🇧 AkA Sherlock Holmes 🔎 and Nigel Bruce 🇬🇧 AkA Dr John Watson 🧐 I still watch these guys together regularly ❤️ Did you love 💟 this cult 193️⃣9️⃣ Conan Doyle film series 🎬🍿⁉️ #BasilRathbone #SherlockHolmes #NigelBruce #DrJohnWatson #ConanDoyle #Sherlock #Detective
Just watched this daft and hilarious Hound of the Baskervilles with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Kenneth Williams, Terry Thomas, Irene Handl, Max Wall, Spike Milligan and a host of other comedy greats. #theoldoakcase #comedy #dvd #conandoyle #sherlockholmes #drwatson #thehound #grympenmire #dartmoor
In 1887, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, defended smallpox vaccination in newspaper letters. As Harriet Hall notes, the anti-vaccine arguments he answered sound much like today's.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Vaccination | Skeptical Inquirer
Today’s anti-vaccine arguments echo the same words that were used in 1887.
skepticalinquirer.org
Now is also a very good time to register for NEXT WEEK’S Worldwide Doyle lecture by Ollie Randall (“Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game”), Tuesday, July 1, also at 11am PT, 2pm ET, 7pm BST, also online and free, and also easy to register for: wegottickets.com/f/22404.
This arrived today. Silver plated Sherlock Holmes teaspoon. It has me wondering if there's a set somewhere 🤔 #theoldoakcase #silverplate #collectables #cutlery #conandoyle #sherlockholmes #timefortea
we picked our top ten on Tripwire this week in case you are curious;) tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/tr...
Tripwire Picks Its Top Ten Sherlock Holmes On TV And Film
The World’s Greatest Detective(s) With our original Sherlock Holmes illustrated prose novella on Kickstarter, we thought it would be fun to offer our top ten portrayals of the World’s Greatest Detecti...
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'The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth-century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit that there is a glamour and a mystery to life.' A. Conan Doyle in the article 'Fairies Photographed', on the Cottingley Fairies. The Strand, 1920 #BookWormSat
Now listening to: Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem dramatised by John Keir Cross, music by Sidney Torch & played by Campoli. Holmes: Sir John Gielgud Watson: Ralph Richardson Moriarty: Orson Welles Decca records LK 4164 #theoldoakcase #vinyl #rare #spokenword #conandoyle
A curiosity. The appendix of this book is interesting by having two Sherlock essays: The Opera Ghost & The Living Corpse. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux with a foreword by Peter Haining. Published in paperback by Star, 1986. #theoldoakcase #booksky #conandoyle #holmes #mystery
Song of the Bow. Dedicated to and sung by Mr. Kennerley Rumford. Words by A. Conan Doyle. Music by Florence Aylward (Signature at bottom right, or a stamp?) Price 2/ Chappell & Co. Ltd. 1898 [20637] G&G p614 5a/b has it as price 4/ 1898/99 so mine comes after 5a 20636. #theoldoakcase #sheetmusic
@doingsofdoyle.com In ep 20. Jelland's Voyage, you mention you haven't seen a copy of Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual re the illustrations. This is my copy and there are no illustrations except for his own image. He does illustrate most others. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #rarebooks #booksky
A short blog post on some interesting UK newspaper tidbits on the 1887 Beeton's appearing in the 20th C. 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/beet...
My own lifesize #booknook 🙂 From #shakespeare to #sherlock, from #myths to #medieval, from #philosophy to #fantasy, from #dictionaries to #dante, from #history to #horror, and from the #esoteric to #escape: #mylibrary lives in the #poetry of #bakerstreet. #booksky #acd #theoldoakcase #conandoyle
Book delivery! Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts by Arthur Conan Doyle. A Facsimile of a Portion of the Original Manuscript. Edited, with an introduction by Peter E. Blau. The Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series, 2001. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #play #rarebooks #acd #holmes
Charles Doyle's 'A Dance Around the Moon' as a 300 piece jigsaw puzzle along with a few Sherlock Holmes jigsaw puzzles. One day when I put the pieces together again, I'll take a photo 🙂 #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #charlesaltamontdoyle #fairies #fantasy #art #jigsawpuzzle #cad #acd
The Bible. A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle by Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson, with a foreword by Graham Greene. New Revised and Expanded Edition of 726 pages. Hudson House, 2000. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #booksky
