...The Jacobite rebellion of 1745-6 had exposed the inadequacy of maps for military purposes. The challenge was taken up by Colonel David Watson who devised the Military Survey of Scotland - a distillation of military intelligence - as part of the subjugation of the Highlands. For this initiative...

...A week or so after moving into 221B Baker Street, Watson observes that his fellow lodger Sherlock Holmes receives visits from ‘many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society’. Among these visitors, Watson is introduced to a ‘little sallow, ratfaced, dark-eyed fellow...

... later the same year). It made it into the first American edition, published by Harper in 1894, only to be removed from later American editions. Its disappearance from the Memoirs led to some significant cutting and pasting: a nineteen-paragraph exchange between Holmes and Watson...

... Amoretti. The chapter ends with some discussion of the ‘vulgar scandal’ sometimes associated with Shakespeare and such sonnets as 111 and 112. Watson Thomas Oxford Seventeenth earl of Edward de Vere Southampton Third earl of Henry Wriothesley Spenser Edmund 1 Henry IV and 2 Henry IV Barnes...

... supporters such as Robert William Seton-Watson, and their creation of the journal The New Europe as a platform for advocating total victory in the war, and articulating the cultural right to independent existence of the constituent nations of the Habsburg Empire. Anderson Benedict Beneš...

... probing Dr Watson’s narratives and Holmes’s often barely credible solutions. Drawing on Victorian and Edwardian history, Conan Doyle’s life and works, and Doyle’s literary sources, the book offers new insights into the Holmes stories and reveals what they say about money, class, family, sex, race, war...

...This chapter explores the Brazilian musical comedy (or chanchada) Aviso aos navegantes (Calling All Sailors), directed by Watson Macedo in 1950 at the Atlântida studios in Rio de Janeiro. It argues that the film stands as an emblematic production...

...This chapter explores the history of the Scottish periodical press from its establishment in the 1640s through to 1800. While James Watson’s Edinburgh Gazette – thought to have been Scotland’s first recognisably modern newspaper – dates to around 1699, the Scottish press was active...