Mark Chadderton

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - You can now book for the annual online lecture series provided by Portsmouth City Council.

#1/4 - 05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“

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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

I read this beauty a few months back + loved it.
Thanks @jfmachin.bsky.social & @edinburghup.bsky.social for another top level, fascinating Conan Doyle book in this magnificent series. Excuse the scruffy haphazard note-taking I did whilst reading it, everyone else does this sort of thing, right? 🤓🫣

Oh yes 😻😘

Yes there’s loads of really useful info contained in the descriptions - and much to gaze at with an open mouth!!! 😛

Got this t’other day off eBay: read it cover to cover asap. What a Doylean treasure trove of tantalising info & fascinating ephemera it is! Going to re-read it again & this time take notes - something which ACD says is essential when reading - but I failed to note that quote first time round 🤣🫣😩

A recent acquisition from the lovely Mr Phillip Bergem… finding this an immensely useful reference and research tool ❤️😻👍 #arthurconandoyle

Looks a lovely edition 👌 decent intro? Any footnotes?

This month in 1910, The London Magazine first published #ArthurConanDoyle's 'The Last of the Legions.' The story is referenced on the cover of the US edition of 'The Last Galley' (1911).

3 maybes equals a yes in my book 😛 already looking forward to that dream book 😘👌

Loving it… I do hope there will be an expanded book on the TOBJG manuscript at some point 🙏

Always brings a smile to my face and joy to see this pop through my letterbox - thanks @acdsociety.bsky.social ❤️🙏

This month in 1883, London Society first published #ArthurConanDoyle's 'The Silver Hatchet' in its Christmas edition. Festive! https://buff.ly/3dtvSsZ

Been reading the latest @edinburghup.bsky.social Works of Conan Doyle with the old @oxunipress.bsky.social ed as it’s great to revisit Richard Lancelyn Green’s more in-depth extensive, speculative notes… got his ‘memorial’ book from SHSOL & read cover to cover - what an inspiration RLG still is ❤️

This month in 1892, The Idler first published #ArthurConanDoyle's 'The Los Amigos Fiasco.' https://buff.ly/3lcmHRY

OTD in 1918, John Murray published the first edition of 'Danger! and Other Stories.' The title story was the focus of our fourth episode. https://buff.ly/3w9ep08

Photograph of Dr Joseph Bell standing by a gate holding a walking stick and wearing deerstalker attire and looking very much the part of Sherlock Holmes.

Part of a letter sent to Joseph Bell from Arthur Conan Doyle crediting him as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.

"It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes". Letter dated 1892 from Arthur Conan Doyle to Joseph Bell, crediting him as the inspiration for his literary detective. Bell was born OTD 1837. Doyle was clerk on Bell's ward at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1877 while a medical student

Currently have these four books on the go…
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Excellent - hope you enjoy it 👌

Got myself a cheap second copy - had to be done 😘

Landed last week!😘

Currently feasting my eyes through this latest edition of the Edinburgh Edition of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle 😘
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