Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in London's Streets

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-281
Author(s):  
Catherine Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Exact Location ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
History Of ◽  
Number Of Visits ◽  
Set Up

One of the attractions of the Sherlock Holmes stories is their location in real, if somewhat disguised locations. Sherlock Holmes's address in Baker Street is one of the most famous in literature. This article sketches the history of the street and looks at the attempts made over the years to identify the exact location of Holmes's apartment. Conan Doyle first came to London to set up a specialist medical practice not far from Harley Street in 1891, though he had made a number of visits to relatives in London during his youth. He did not stay long, moving to the suburbs when he gave medical practice up in favour of full-time writing. In later life he maintained a London flat and owned and ran his own bookshop and museum nearby to further his Spiritualist crusade. These links with London are examined, highlighting the various addresses in which he and his family lived or did business.

Arthur Conan Doyle to 1893

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Sarah LeFanu
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Happy Marriage ◽  
The Many

This chapter opens with the declaration of war between Britain and the Boer Republics on 11 October 1899 and the reaction to it of 40-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed that the war would be over in a matter of months. It investigates Conan Doyle’s Scottish background: his family’s poverty, his father’s alcoholism, his resilient mother and the many siblings for whom he felt responsible. It draws readers’ attention to Conan Doyle’s autobiographical novel The Stark Munro Letters for a picture of his early years of struggle to succeed in medical practice. It describes his breakthrough as a writer and his happy marriage to Louise ‘Touie’ Hawkins; the success of the Sherlock Holmes stories allowed him to give up practicing as a doctor and to write full-time. The chapter concludes when Touie is diagnosed with consumption, ‘the great misfortune,’ as Conan Doyle said, ‘which darkened and deflected our lives.’

Arthur Conan Doyle and Medical London: Reading the Topography of Round the Red Lamp

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-313
Author(s):  
Roger Luckhurst
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Set Up

This essay explores the short period of time that Arthur Conan Doyle spent between March and June 1891 when he moved his family into rooms in Bloomsbury and took a consulting room near Harley Street in an attempt to set up as an eye specialist. This last attempt to move up the professional hierarchy from general practitioner to specialist tends to be seen as a final impulsive move before Conan Doyle decided to become a full-time writer in June 1891. The essay aims to elaborate a little on the medical contexts for Conan Doyle’s brief spell in London, and particularly to track the medical topography in which he placed himself, situated between the radical, reformist Bloomsbury medical institutions and the fame and riches of the society doctors of Harley Street. These ambivalences are tracked in the medical fiction he published in Round the Red Lamp, his peculiar collection of medical tales and doctoring in 1894.

Teaching Criminology and Police Science for Postgraduate Students at the Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany

2010 ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Diana Ziegleder ◽  
Felix Feldmann-Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Insight Into

This case study looks at the postgraduate program in Criminology and Police Science at the Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany. This practice oriented course of study is designed as a distance learning course (blended learning) and therefore focuses on techniques of e-learning. The case study describes the history of origins and examines the educational situation before this master’s program was established and how an idea became reality. It is one of the very few possibilities in Germany to receive a deeper insight into criminology and police science. Despite the fact, that the students are all professionals and thus working mostly full time, the technical premises make a discourse possible as in on-campus programs. These innovative forms of learning are the focal point of the following case study. It is our aim to provide insight into how a master’s program could be set up and to promote new concepts of e-learning in the field of criminology.

scholarly journals de Bruijn notation as a nested datatype

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD S. BIRD ◽  
ROSS PATERSON
Keyword(s):  
Natural Number ◽  
Type System ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
De Bruijn ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
System Programming

“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesde Bruijn notation is a coding of lambda terms in which each occurrence of a bound variable x is replaced by a natural number, indicating the ‘distance’ from the occurrence to the abstraction that introduced x. One might suppose that in any datatype for representing de Bruijn terms, the distance restriction on numbers would have to be maintained as an explicit datatype invariant. However, by using a nested (or non-regular) datatype, we can define a representation in which all terms are well-formed, so that the invariant is enforced automatically by the type system. Programming with nested types is only a little more difficult than programming with regular types, provided we stick to well-established structuring techniques. These involve expressing inductively defined functions in terms of an appropriate fold function for the type, and using fusion laws to establish their properties. In particular, the definition of lambda abstraction and beta reduction is particularly simple, and the proof of their associated properties is entirely mechanical.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Conan Doyle
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
General Editor ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Biographical Study ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
Murder Weapon

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson. That said, the collection also includes some of the best turns of wit in the series, and indeed in the whole of English literature. The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, is Emeritus David Masson, Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the author of Modern English Literature. The general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Teaching Criminology and Police Science for Postgraduate Students at the Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany

2010 ◽  
pp. 1019-1035
Author(s):  
Diana Ziegleder ◽  
Felix Feldmann-Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Insight Into

This case study looks at the postgraduate program inCriminology and Police Science at the Ruhr- UniversityBochum, Germany. This practice oriented course of study is designed as a distance learning course (blended learning)and therefore focuses on techniques of e-learning. Thecase study describes the history of origins and examinesthe educational situation before this master’s program was established and how an idea became reality. It is one ofthe very few possibilities in Germany to receive a deeper insight into criminology and police science. Despite the fact, that the students are all professionals and thus working mostly full time, the technical premises make a discourse possible as in on-campus programs. These innovative forms of learning are the focal point of the following case study. It is our aim to provide insight into how a master’s program could be set up and to promote new concepts of e-learning in the field of criminology.

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