“Aboriginals”: The Earliest Baker Street Irregulars, 1934-1940. By Harrison Hunt and Linda Hunt. When Christopher Morley founded the Baker Street Irregulars in 1934, he brought along many distinguished friends and colleagues into the fold. This book presents capsule biographies and photographs of the earliest, "aboriginal," Irregulars, -- many of them remarkably accomplished individuals -- including … Continue reading “Aboriginals”
The Autumn 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Diogenes Club: The Case for the Junior Carlton Club by Seth Alexander Thévoz. Sherlock Holmes and the English Opium Eater by Nick Louras. Canary-Training in the Nineteenth Century by Marc Kaufman. The Dead Man’s Chest: Treasure Island and The Sign of the … Continue reading Autumn 2019 BSJ
The Summer 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Another Sherlockian Myth Debunked: Time to Turn the Page(t)? by Ira B. Matetsky. Regularly Overlooked: An Appreciation of Holmes’s Irregulars by Emily Miranker. Underappreciated Yet Essential by Andrew G. Fusco. From Florida to Appomattox by Robert S. Katz. When Watson Learned the Trick: … Continue reading Summer 2019 BSJ
Registration and reservations are now open for the BSI's conference to be held Friday November 8, 2019 through Sunday November 10, 2019 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. "Building an Archive: A Celebration of the Arrival of the BSI Archive at the Lilly Library" will feature more than 20 leading Sherlockian collectors, librarians, booksellers, authors … Continue reading Building an Archive: 2019 Conference
The BSI 2020 conference "Sherlock Holmes and the British Empire" will be open to all Sherlockians, and will be held on July 17-19, 2020. The conference will be at the Bear Mountain Inn, near West Point, NY. We plan to open registration in late January 2020, and it will include special room rates for the … Continue reading Save the Dates: Our 2020 Conference
The Spring 2019 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. Freddy the Porcine Holmes by Dan Andriacco. “All those branches of science”: Holmes and Archaeology at the British Museum by Dana Cameron. The Convict Selden Seen: How Did the Notting Hill Murderer Escape Dartmoor Prison and Flee to Safety? by Carla Coupe. You … Continue reading Spring 2019 BSJ
Celebrating the 165th birthday of Sherlock Holmes, the 2019 BSI Weekend took place in New York City with events from January 9-13, including the BSI Dinner on Friday January 11. Of special note was Mike Whelan's announcement that Michael Kean would be the next leader of the Baker Street Irregulars. He will officially become the … Continue reading The 2019 BSI Weekend Report
The Winter 2018 Baker Street Journal includes these articles: The Editor’s Gas-Lamp. The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle by Leslie S. Klinger. Follow the Money: How Mycroft Became the British Government by Ann Margaret Lewis. The Forgotten Man: Henry Littlejohn and Sherlock Holmes by Daniel Smith. Nearly an Intimate Encounter: Conan … Continue reading Winter 2018 BSJ
The Exhibitionists: Sherlock Holmes in London 1951 and New York 1952. By Mattias Boström and Nicholas Utechin. In a time of austerity and rationing after WWII, the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrated the best of Britain. And what better figurehead, then, than Sherlock Holmes. The extraordinarily successful exhibition ran from May until September 1951 and … Continue reading BSJ 2018 Christmas Annual
The winner of the 2018 Morley-Montgomery Award is Leslie S. Klinger. His paper, “The Origins of Sherlock Holmes: Crime Fiction before Conan Doyle,” appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of the Baker Street Journal. The Morley-Montgomery Award is given each year for the best article to appear in The Baker Street Journal, and comes with … Continue reading 2018 Morley-Montgomery Award
