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Happy 170th Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!

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2024/01/06

“born to be a man of action” [HOUN]Today is January 6th — and that marks the date on which we traditionally celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday.We say "traditionally," because there is no definitive statement of his actual date of birth in the Canon, but beginning withChristopher Morley, the date of January 6th has become the de facto accepted date for Holmes' birthday. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons.Of all of the quotes in the Canon, William Shakespeare was the most oft-quoted author

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Watch the Wessex Cup Live

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2024/01/04

“the favorite for the Wessex Cup” [SILV]One of the more whimsical events during the annual Baker Street Irregulars Weekend is a recent addition: the running of the Wessex Cup. It's a horse race named after the iconic race that the eponymous missing horse was scheduled to run in "The Adventure of Silver Blaze."Now, before you wonder where a horse race might be staged in Manhattan, let us spoil it by telling you the horses are not actual equines. In fact, they're toy wind-up horses with mini-figure

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Baker Street Elementary – Tactical Communication

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2023/12/31

“very wide and tactful” [MAZA]All too often these days, we see modern interpretations that take his cold, calculating nature and turn it into something toxic, as if he didn't know how to tactfully talk with people. The BBC's Sherlock even refers to him as a sociopath.But the real Sherlock Holmes was not only tactful, but could put clients at ease with his words and his manner. Time and again, Watson refers to Holmes's ability to calm and soothe those in his presence:“Pray sit down, Mr. Scott

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The Adventure of the Fur-Trimmed Hat

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2023/12/18

"all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition" [HOUN][Editor's note: the following is a parody for the holiday season, submitted by James C. O'Leary]I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes on Christmas Eve, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a chartreuse dressing-gown, the day’s newspapers well-studied and his black briar emitting a curl of blue smoke in the ashtray. Beside the couch was a straight-backed chair, and on the

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Baker Street Elementary – The Facts (of Life) Are...

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2023/12/17

“little birds and insects” [COPP]There are some elements of Victorian society which were never spoken of. At least not in polite society and certainly not in public.The euphemism "the birds and the bees" has long been used to refer to one such topic. And it's likely that Holmes and Watson would have heard of it in their childhood, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the creatures in his collection "Work Without Hope" in 1825:All nature seems at work . . . The bees are stirring--birds are on the

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The 2024 Sherlock Holmes Page-a-Day Calendar

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2023/12/12

“a case of appearing daily” [SHOS]What could be better than 12 months of Sherlock Holmes images and quotes on a calendar?A full year of daily Sherlock Holmes quotes and images on a calendar! That's what you get with the2024 Page A Day Sherlock Holmes Calendar sold by MX Publishing.Artist Mike Foy and author Richard Ryan have teamed up to bring this to life for 2024. Each day features an illustration, as well as a relevant quote from the Canon, and an event that happened on that particular

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Episode 277: Sherlock Mondays

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2023/11/30

“I was much astounded by this programme” [HOUN]When Sherlockians are looking for more ways to fill their listening and viewing time, what are they to do? We would of course recommend you to either of the podcasts we create, but lucky for you, there's an even better option!Sherlock Mondaysare offered through the Rosenbach Museum and Library, running from September 2023 to April 2024. These Biblioventures are the creation of Edward G. Pettit, who is the Sunstein Senior Manager of Public Programs at

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Remembering Joss Ackland

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2023/11/20

"a very smiling face, and a great heavy chin" [COPP]Actor Joss Ackland has passed away. He was 95 years old. Sherlock Holmes fans may recognize him from a number of roles which we'll detail below— which would seem to parallel his stage career. In 2010, the Express credited him as appearing in more plays than any other living actor. Born in London in 1928, he was trained at the Central School of Speech and drama and made his debut in 1945 in "The Hasty Heart."His first film was the thriller

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Baker Street Elementary – Picture This

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2023/11/19

“Your pictures are not unlike you” [3GAB]When we read the Sherlock Holmes stories, each one of us has a vision in our head how Sherlock Holmes should look.Sometimes, it's influenced by portrayals of Holmes in various forms of media. So some think of Basil Rathbone while others think of Jeremy Brett, while others think about Douglas Wilmer, Peter Cushing, or Benedict Cumberbatch.But before all of that, the public imagined Sherlock Holmes to look just as Sidney Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele drew him

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Episode 276: On the Road with Erik Deckers

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2023/11/15

“the man flew past us on the road” [PRIO]Photo credit: Wikimedia CommonsWe love writers and we love humor, so when we meet a writer who has a humor column, even better. And Erik Deckers — a name familiar to people in these parts — fits the bill.Erik's weekly syndicated humor column is a fun read, just as his attempts at solving the Canonical Couplet each episode are a fun listen. But we delve deeper than humor with Erik: we talk about his writing history, his term as a writer-in-residence at the

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Baker Street Elementary – Nothing to Sneeze At

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2023/11/05

“oh, bless you” [STUD]Did you know that in the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, a sneeze is not mentioned even once. Not just the physical act of sneezing, but even the phrase "nothing to sneeze at."It's not that the expression wasn't known in Holmes's time.The first recorded use of the phrase in its current negative form, was in 1799, in a play by John Till Allingham: Fortune's Frolic:"Why, as to his consent I don't value it a button; but then £5000 is a sum not to be sneezed at."And the phrase "God

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Jeremy Brett Would Have Been 90 Years Old Today

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2023/11/03

“your celebrated friend” [NAVA]On November 3, 1933Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in Berkswell, West Midlands. He would become known professionally as Jeremy Brett.He came from an upper-class background — his father was an Army officer and his mother was from the Cadbury confectionary dynasty. Brett would go on to attend Eton, where he was a member of the choir and excelled at singing.This singing would prove to be helpful as he took on one of his most significant and memorable film

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Episode 275: Sherlock & Co.

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2023/10/30

“the reputation of being excellent company” [ENGR]For this 275th episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, we're joined by another podcast. It always delights us to talk about audio with other audio geeks.Joel Emery is writer and co-creator of Sherlock & Co., a new podcast from Goalhanger Podcasts. Together with his partner Adam Jarrell, they're dramatizing the entire canon of 60 stories in the form of a real-crime podcast, with John H. Watson as the narrator.It's an ambitious and creative

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Baker Street Elementary – A Load of Bull

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2023/10/22

“what he called my cock-and-bull story” [FIVE]In A Study in Scarlet, as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are determining if they'd be suitable flatmates, they disclose various aspects of their lives and personalities, in an effort to be transparent about themselves.Holmes begins by admitting to his love of strong tobacco and his proclivity for chemical experiments, which Watson has no problem with.Then he goes into his personality traits:“Let me see—what are my other shortcomings. I get in the dumps

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Episode 274: The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes

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2023/10/15

“How came you there?” [BLAC]Questing was Sherlock Holmes's business. He took in the world around him and tried (and succeeded most often) to make sense of it — as did his creator Arthur Conan Doyle.In his efforts to connect the dots in his latest book, The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, Andrew Lycett goes questing, just as many of his previous biographical subjects did.We journey with Andrew across the place, the times, the wider world that gave birth to this remarkable character, and the way the

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Nominations Are Open for the 2024 Susan Rice...

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2023/10/11

“twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us” [SPEC]Photo courtesy of Will Walsh, BSIEvery profession, every hobby needs mentors. A mentor's job is to help new arrivals understand the context and meaning of the organization they're stepping into. Mentors helpfully point out the guardrails, endlessly encourage curiosity, and consistently communicate the worth and potential of those in their charge.Mentors are leaders.And we were blessed to have such a leader inSusan Rice, ASH, BSI,

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What Is Your Favorite Jeremy Brett Episode?

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2023/10/09

“I have my old favourite” [3GAR]It's hard to believe, but next year — 2024 —will mark the 40th anniversary of the premiere of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Granada TV.The series was part of a resurgence of Sherlock Holmes interest that carried over from the 1970s, with The Seven Per-Cent Solution in 1976 and Murder By Decree in 1979.Then, the early 1980s featured not one but two productions of The Hound of the Baskervilles —one starring Tom Baker and another starring Ian Richardson, who also

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Episode 273: Close to Holmes

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2023/09/30

“The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan” [REDH]The wonder and magic of the Sherlock Holmes stories is that they were set, for their contemporary audience, in a city and its surroundings that were very familiar and very real.Alistair Duncan set out to capture that in his book Close to Holmes, taking us on many journeys by foot and other conveyances, with wonderful photographs supported by vivid descriptions. Even though we weren't alive when the stories were written, we can feel as if we

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Baker Street Elementary – The Greatest Show of Dearth

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2023/09/24

“and yet it amounted to nothing” [NORW]Before Sherlock Holmes came along, detective stories, while satisfying, weren't all that revealing. Oh sure, the crimes would be revealed, but the methods were more opaque.In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes showed his disdain for literary detectives:“Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s silence is really very showy and superficial. He had

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Episode 272: Legends of the BSJ - Christopher Morley

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2023/09/15

“For three hours we strolled about together” [RESI]As we continue our look at some of the early Baker Street Irregulars associated with The Baker Street Journal (we began with its publisher Ben Abramson in Episode 269), we turn to Christopher Morley.Morley was the right man at the right time with the right attitude, and Steven Rothman, BSI, 2s. ("The Valley of Fear") is the foremost expert on this legend of the BSJ.We look at Morley's early life, his influences, his literary works, and his

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