Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is ...

What did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Stein have in common? They were both trained as ophthalmologists. Most ...

Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the actual story of the Sherlock Holmes author’s pursuing a miscarriage of justice at the turn of the 19 th century—the false ...