Sherlock Holmes and His Contemporaries
The development of popular detective fiction from the 1880s to the 1920s. In an arena dominated by one iconic figure in a deerstalker, there were dozens of other contenders from the title of ‘The Great Detective’ in the pages of popular monthly magazines. From Arthur Morrison’s painstaking sleuth Martin Hewitt to Baroness Orczy’s devious Old Man in the Corner, the richly diverse gallery of inspired creations is given centre stage. 

Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War
In 1900, at the height of his fame, and a decade after he had given up his medical career, Conan Doyle went out to the Boer War as a hospital administrator. We look at his work there under terrible circumstances in Bloemfontein and his remarkable achievement in writing a history of the war whilst it was still underway.  

Programme

09.45  Doors Open - Tea and coffee on arrival
10.30  Lecture 1: Sherlock Holmes & His Contemporaries
11.30  Coffee Break
12.00  Lecture 2: Duty Before Fiction - Arthur Conan Doyle and the Boer War
13.00  Depart 

Venue          Beacon Hall, Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Painswick, GL6 6QQ 

Cost             Members £24. Non-Members £28.
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