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The ACD Society: A community dedicated to studying and enjoying the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Website: http://acdsociety.com.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!
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Today the Red Circle of Washington DC met. I’ll certainly write a post but the coolest thing that I saw while I was there with these earrings made by Sheridan as copies of the Strand magazine with stories inside!!!! #sherlock
September 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today the Red Circle of Washington DC met. I’ll certainly write a post but the coolest thing that I saw while I was there with these earrings made by Sheridan as copies of the Strand magazine with stories inside!!!! #sherlock
Norwegian Explorer Melissa Aho has discovered a Sherlockian Dancing Man in St. Paul. See number 44 on the updated Dancing Man map. Thank you Melissa!
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Norwegian Explorer Melissa Aho has discovered a Sherlockian Dancing Man in St. Paul. See number 44 on the updated Dancing Man map. Thank you Melissa!
The 2025 Baker Street Almanac is finally set for mailing next week (with a small companion), due to the efforts of many fine Sherlockians (bless you and thank you, every one!), especially Pamela Sullivan, Ira Matetsky, Rich Krisciunas,Mike McSwiggin, Sue and Ben Vizoskie, and Harrison Terry Hunt!
August 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The 2025 Baker Street Almanac is finally set for mailing next week (with a small companion), due to the efforts of many fine Sherlockians (bless you and thank you, every one!), especially Pamela Sullivan, Ira Matetsky, Rich Krisciunas,Mike McSwiggin, Sue and Ben Vizoskie, and Harrison Terry Hunt!
The nationwide search for the Collier's Dancing Men in 1903 newspapers continues, and so do the discoveries. Congratulations to Bruce Harris, who has added the Louisville Times (home of Dancing Man number XXXIX) to the map.
August 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The nationwide search for the Collier's Dancing Men in 1903 newspapers continues, and so do the discoveries. Congratulations to Bruce Harris, who has added the Louisville Times (home of Dancing Man number XXXIX) to the map.
Margie Deck and Nancy Holder are back with more Terror. Max Magee is the authorial star of this installment of “The Terror of Blue John Gap,” with annotations for pages 1 and 11. Visit both pages for some terrifying illumination! acdsociety.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Margie Deck and Nancy Holder are back with more Terror. Max Magee is the authorial star of this installment of “The Terror of Blue John Gap,” with annotations for pages 1 and 11. Visit both pages for some terrifying illumination! acdsociety.com
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Third of four Conan Doyle letters held by the State Library of New South Wales. I've dated this one to 31 March 1884 (very specific!) and there's plenty of connections and context....
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June 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Third of four Conan Doyle letters held by the State Library of New South Wales. I've dated this one to 31 March 1884 (very specific!) and there's plenty of connections and context....
221bcooee.blogspot.com/2025/06/dear...
221bcooee.blogspot.com/2025/06/dear...
Congratulation @drmjones.bsky.social !
The Summer Sherlock Holmes Journal is hitting doorsteps. It’s my first issue as editor since taking over from the inestimable Roger Johnson earlier this year.
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Congratulation @drmjones.bsky.social !
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The Summer Sherlock Holmes Journal is hitting doorsteps. It’s my first issue as editor since taking over from the inestimable Roger Johnson earlier this year.
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Summer Sherlock Holmes Journal is hitting doorsteps. It’s my first issue as editor since taking over from the inestimable Roger Johnson earlier this year.
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social
Next Wed. at 2pm ET, Cliff Goldfarb will present "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens" as part of Portsmouth Libraries' Worldwide Doyle lecture series. Don't miss this fine scholar and speaker on this intriguing (and, surely, entertaining) topic! Register free: wegottickets.com/event/660553
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Next Wed. at 2pm ET, Cliff Goldfarb will present "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens" as part of Portsmouth Libraries' Worldwide Doyle lecture series. Don't miss this fine scholar and speaker on this intriguing (and, surely, entertaining) topic! Register free: wegottickets.com/event/660553
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WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - #1/4 TONIGHT
05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“
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05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“
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June 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - #1/4 TONIGHT
05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“
wegottickets.com/event/660551
05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“
wegottickets.com/event/660551
Don't forget to attend online! This year's first Worldwide Doyle Lecture from Portsmouth Library -- Burt Wolder on "Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories" -- is in a few hours (Thursday, June 5, at 2pm US Eastern Time). Register for free here:
wegottickets.com/event/660551
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Worldwide Doyle 2025 - Burt Wolder
As Conan Doyle’s health began to fail, he looked back upon a life rich with accomplishment. In 1930 he drew a cartoon depicting himself as “The Old Horse,” pulling a wagon loaded with memories. This t...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Don't forget to attend online! This year's first Worldwide Doyle Lecture from Portsmouth Library -- Burt Wolder on "Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories" -- is in a few hours (Thursday, June 5, at 2pm US Eastern Time). Register for free here:
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660551
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NEW EPISODE: 'The Man from Archangel' (1885). John McVittie is interrupted when two strangers are shipwrecked near his remote coastal estate... Chat about: misanthropes, unreliable narrators, nihilists, whether this really was ACD's favourite, and gun maintenance. bit.ly/DODoyle; bit.ly/DOD063sn
May 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW EPISODE: 'The Man from Archangel' (1885). John McVittie is interrupted when two strangers are shipwrecked near his remote coastal estate... Chat about: misanthropes, unreliable narrators, nihilists, whether this really was ACD's favourite, and gun maintenance. bit.ly/DODoyle; bit.ly/DOD063sn
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This is going to be fun! They've not disappointed yet.👍
Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3.
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May 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is going to be fun! They've not disappointed yet.👍
Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3.
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660553
wegottickets.com/event/660554
wegottickets.com/event/660557
acdsociety.com
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660553
wegottickets.com/event/660554
wegottickets.com/event/660557
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May 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3.
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660553
wegottickets.com/event/660554
wegottickets.com/event/660557
acdsociety.com
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660553
wegottickets.com/event/660554
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Ever wonder what inspired my @acdsociety.bsky.social award-winning poem 'The Ascent'? See the staircase and other features of Conan Doyle’s former home Undershaw by joining the livestream of @mxpublishing.bsky.social’s Evening With Sherlock Holmes.
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April 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Ever wonder what inspired my @acdsociety.bsky.social award-winning poem 'The Ascent'? See the staircase and other features of Conan Doyle’s former home Undershaw by joining the livestream of @mxpublishing.bsky.social’s Evening With Sherlock Holmes.
www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
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The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com
@margiedeck.bsky.social & Nancy Holder are back with another page in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project: "we find ourselves with an abundance of new commentators to enlighten us about this page of Doyle’s manuscript and, indeed, about a great deal more." See "page 10" for Terror! acdsociety.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@margiedeck.bsky.social & Nancy Holder are back with another page in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project: "we find ourselves with an abundance of new commentators to enlighten us about this page of Doyle’s manuscript and, indeed, about a great deal more." See "page 10" for Terror! acdsociety.com
Lee Simpson of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, reports: "Whilst working through all the Presidential Address and Subsidiary Toasts from 1894... I have just discovered that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the reply to the Toast to Literature in 1901." www.walterscottclub.com/blog/reply-t...
Reply to the Toast to Literature
Dr Arthur Conan Doyle, in response to the Toast to Literature, delivered a deeply reflective and widely praised address on imaginative literature, the uniqueness of literary genius, and the rare brill...
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April 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lee Simpson of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, reports: "Whilst working through all the Presidential Address and Subsidiary Toasts from 1894... I have just discovered that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the reply to the Toast to Literature in 1901." www.walterscottclub.com/blog/reply-t...
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Have been invited to write a chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle’s *Micah Clarke*, so now I get to explore the biggest event in Pittard family history: yes, it’s the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion!
February 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Have been invited to write a chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle’s *Micah Clarke*, so now I get to explore the biggest event in Pittard family history: yes, it’s the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion!
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Finally managed to get the @acdsociety.bsky.social Doylean awards for Fiction up in the library. Doesn’t look too shabby for a DIY project. 🙂
February 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Finally managed to get the @acdsociety.bsky.social Doylean awards for Fiction up in the library. Doesn’t look too shabby for a DIY project. 🙂
A well-deserved honor!
Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social
Among everything else, I forgot to congratulate @anniechapman.bsky.social for winning the Arthur Conan Doyle society's award for the year's best academic work on Doyle, for her article on Doyle, medical authority, and *The Idler*. I was on the panel and it was a very tough competition.
January 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A well-deserved honor!
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Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social
Among everything else, I forgot to congratulate @anniechapman.bsky.social for winning the Arthur Conan Doyle society's award for the year's best academic work on Doyle, for her article on Doyle, medical authority, and *The Idler*. I was on the panel and it was a very tough competition.
January 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social