The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest

Conan Doyle

A Study in Sherlock

The world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Victorian and Edwardian Age. This new and exciting exhibition includes some of the highlights of the collection given to the City by Richard Lancelyn Green. Bring your pupils to experience the world of Sherlock Holmes and fine-tune their powers of detection!

From September 2007, we will have two exciting detective trails. Both are suitable for key stage two, and the literacy trail is also suitable for key stage one.

1.         Fact or Fiction - the History Trail

Focusing on the skills, knowledge and understanding required by the National Curriculum for history, it invites pupils to become history detectives, to use the clues provided and the evidence in the ‘A Study in Sherlock’ exhibition itself to solve the mystery of who was real - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Sherlock Holmes?

2.         The Victorian Mystery Literacy Trail

This is the skeleton of a fictional open-ended story set in a new museum in 1904.

Whilst visiting the museum to discuss his new Sherlock Holmes story, his Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s briefcase goes missing. The investigation was carried out by a police detective called Inspector Elliot, who was unable to solve the crime.

This is why the children are needed to help solve the mystery of ‘Who stole the briefcase?’

No answer to the mystery is provided: it is up to the children to decide what really happened. (Although we can provide a ‘final confession’ letter if preferred!)