Sherlock Holmes (TRIH ep 85)
1887 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon: its literary origins, cultural impact, and the life of Arthur Conan Doyle. They trace Doyle's medical training under Joseph Bell as the inspiration for Holmes, discuss the stories' publication in The Strand and their shaping of popular images of late Victorian London and empire, and place Holmes within the emergence of modern detection and forensic science. The conversation ranges across Doyle's other historical n...
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