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The ACD Society: A community dedicated to studying and enjoying the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Website: http://acdsociety.com.
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!
21.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
20.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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!
12.09.2025 10:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of front cover of 2025 Baker Street Almanac with small "Sherlock Holmes" companion volume.
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!
30.08.2025 23:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
16.08.2025 00:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of explorer examining mysterious animal track in mud courtesy of Alexis Barquin and his Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia.
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
12.08.2025 01:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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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Congratulation @drmjones.bsky.social !
16.06.2025 18:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
07.06.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - #1/4 TONIGHT
05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“
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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:
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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
30.05.2025 17:04 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Newly framed
31.05.2025 19:14 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is going to be fun! They've not disappointed yet.👍
31.05.2025 06:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
banner for Worldwide Doyle lectures, with photo of Arthur Conan Doyle
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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The Ascent: A poem by Paul Hiscock Winner of a Doylean Honor for Excellence in Fiction and Poetry
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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The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com
11.04.2025 03:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@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
07.04.2025 00:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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...
05.04.2025 17:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Have 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!
25.02.2025 22:33 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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. 🙂
19.02.2025 03:52 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0A well-deserved honor!
29.01.2025 02:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social
28.01.2025 22:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I'm delighted to say I've received an award from the @acdsociety.bsky.social for my contribution to Arthur Conan Doyle scholarship! I'm thrilled to have been chosen, alongside some superb winners in other categories:
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Sorry - should have tagged @sherlockphd.bsky.social and @acdsociety.bsky.social. Oops!
23.01.2025 10:22 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
23.01.2025 02:05 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
We announced the 2025 Doylean Honorees last Thursday at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. For a complete list of the honorees, visit acdsociety.com. Pictured here are Crystal Noll and Heather Holloway presenting an award to Hal Glatzer, and Derrick Belanger presenting to Nicholas Meyer.
22.01.2025 21:52 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Many thanks to Ross Davies and the @acdsociety.bsky.social for the lovely award for Honors in Fiction during today’s gathering at @mysteriousbookshop.com. ‘The Genius of the Place’ means a lot to me and I’m grateful to Derrick Belanger and Brian Belanger for believing in the book. 🥹
16.01.2025 23:18 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
