Alex Werner - Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die

A Case of [Mistaken?] Identity
by David Cannadine

The Bohemian Habits of Sherlock Holmes
by John Stokes

Sherlock Holmes, Sidney Paget and the Strand Magazine
by Alex Werner

The Art of Sherlock Holmes
by Pat Hardy

Throwaway Holmes
by Clare Pettitt

Silent Sherlocks: Holmes and Early Cinema
by Nathalie Morris

EVER SINCE HIS CREATION, SHERLOCK HOLMES HAS ENTHRALLED READERS.

Our perception of him and his faithful companion, Dr Watson, has been shaped by a long line of film, TV and theatre adaptations. This richly illustrated book, compiled by Alex Werner, Head of History Collections at the Museum of London, is an essential guide to the greatest fictional detective and his world. Using the museums unrivalled collections of photographs, paintings and original artefacts, it illuminates the capital city that inspired the Sherlock Holmes stories, in particular its fogs, Hansom cabs, criminal underworld, famous landmarks and streets.

Accompanying the landmark exhibition at the Museum of London, the first since 1951, this book explores how Arthur Conan Doyles creation of Sherlock Holmes has transcended literature and continues to attract audiences to this day. Authoritatively written by leading experts, headed by Sir David Cannadine, this thought-provoking companion sheds new light on the famous sleuth and reveals the truth behind the fiction, over 125 years after the first Sherlock Holmes story was written.

THE MUSEUM OF LONDON opened in 1976. It tells the ever-changing story of the greatest city in the world and the people who live there. Its galleries chart a journey through London from earliest times to the present. Its ever-changing programme of exhibitions and events and its collections gives you a sense of the vibrancy that makes London the exciting and special place it is today.

ALEX WERNER, Head of History Collections at the Museum of London, has curated a number of major displays including Dickens and London (2011-12), the Expanding City gallery (2010) and London Bodies (1998). His publications include Dickenss Victorian London, Jack the Ripper and The East End (2008), Journeys Through Victorian London (2001) and Dockland Life (2000).

S IR D AVID C ANNADINE FBA is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Class in Britain, Ornamentalism, Mellon, and The Undivided Past, and has just completed a short biography of King George V. Sir David is a Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation, the Royal Academy, the Library of Birmingham, the Rothschild Archive, the Gladstone Library and the Gordon Brown Archive. He is also the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Vice Chair of the Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission and the Editorial Board of Past and Present, a Vice President of the Victorian Society, and a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee and the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament. He is a former Chair of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery and of the Blue Plaques Panel, and has also served as a Commissioner of English Heritage, a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, and a Trustee of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Sir David makes frequent appearances on radio and television in the UK and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4s A Point of View programme.

J OHN S TOKES is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature at Kings College London. He has written widely on the culture of the fin de sicle and, together with Mark W. Turner, has edited two volumes of Oscar Wildes journalism, Complete Works, (Oxford University Press, 2013).

A LEX W ERNER is Head of History Collections at the Museum of London. He has curated a number of major displays including Dickens and London (201112), the Expanding City gallery (2010) and Jack the Ripper and the East End (20089). His publications include Dickenss Victorian London (co-authored with Tony Williams, Ebury Press, 2011) and Dockland Life (co-authored with Chris Ellmers, Mainstream Publishing, 2000).

P AT H ARDY is Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London and Curator of the exhibition on Sherlock Holmes. Having obtained a PhD at the Courtauld Institute on nineteenth-century British Art, she was an Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery where she worked on the critically acclaimed Sir Thomas Lawrence exhibition and then took up the position of Curator of Works on Paper at National Museums Liverpool. Most recently at the Museum she has worked on the exhibition Dickens and London (201112) and Drawing the Games: London 2012 and Nicholas Garland and is currently researching corporate art for an exhibition about this for the Museum of London Docklands in 2015. She is published widely and is currently writing a book on the imagery of nineteenth-century migration.

C LARE P ETTITT is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at Kings College London. Her first monograph, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford University Press, 2004) investigated the status of creativity in an industrialising world. Her second book, Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire (Profile and Harvard University Press, 2007) was about the clash of African and European modernities in the nineteenth century. From 20062011, she was a Research Director on the Cambridge Victorian Studies Project, and she is now working on Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 18571900, a four-year AHRC-funded project on the aesthetics of the Atlantic Telegraph.

D R N ATHALIE M ORRIS is Senior Curator of the BFI National Archives Special Collections. She has written and presented on various aspects of silent and British cinema including women working the British film industry, particularly before 1930; film marketing and publicity; and the early career (and London connections) of Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. Her current research interests include food and cinema, British cinema costume design, and the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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A S S HERLOCK H OLMES is one of the worlds most famous fictional characters, it is surprising that there has not been a major exhibition on him in Britain for over sixty years. Yet, with the recent success of the BBCs Sherlock, together with Robert Dohertys Elementary and the two big-budget films directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, Holmes is arguably now at his most popular. The films combined have grossed around one billion dollars.

It is evident that Arthur Conan Doyles iconic stories have the capacity to be reworked abundantly for new adaptations, whether set in a Victorian past or in a contemporary locale. Fresh audiences are constantly being drawn to Sherlock Holmes. This book investigates and reveals just why the detective and his world have endured. Important facets of his characters are discussed alongside the backdrop of Victorian and Edwardian London, that metamorphosing vast city with a rapidly expanding population and extremes of wealth and poverty.