Sherlockian.Net: Societies

Starting points

  • A list of Sherlockian societies, arranged geographically (maintained by Peter E. Blau)
  • Other lists of societies, maintained by Peter E. Blau
  • Worldwide Holmesian Photo Gallery
  • Sherlockians Around the World mapping
  • "Singular sets of people", an essay about Sherlockian scion societies by Bill Vande Water
  • Jody Baker explains what being a Sherlockian is all about
  • 'Holmes and his commentators'
  • Paul Smedegaard talks about Sherlockian societies, including the Baker Street Irregulars
  • A Sherlockian Menagerie
    Sherlockian Calendar maintained by The Three Garridebs

    The Baker Street Irregulars

    The most famous Sherlock Holmes society is the Baker Street Irregulars, founded 1934 by Christopher Morley. Membership is by invitation only. The major event is an annual January dinner in New York — the centrepiece of an annual "birthday weekend" that brings hundreds of Sherlockians to New York.

    The BSI has dozens of "scion societies" across the United States, and kindred societies in other countries. It publishes the quarterly Baker Street Journal.

  • Al Gregory's list of Irregulars, arranged by Investiture (on Sherlockian.Net)
  • Peter Blau's alphabetical list of "investitured" Irregulars | Another version
  • Unofficial BSI information from "Lafter Hall"
  • The Baker Street Irregulars Trust
  • A band that shares nothing except the name

    Canada's national society

    [Bootmaker logo] The Bootmakers of Toronto, taking its name from an allusion in The Hound of the Baskervilles, is the parent society for Canadian Sherlockians, as well as the local society for those in Toronto and nearby. It meets half a dozen times a year, most often at the Toronto Reference Library.

    The Bootmakers publish a quarterly magazine, Canadian Holmes. Bootmaker membership, including a subscription to CH, costs $25 a year (that's $25 Canadian in Canada, $25 US in the United States, because of higher postage costs).

    The address:

    The Bootmakers of Toronto
    5 Brownlea Avenue
    Toronto, Ontario M9P 2R5
  • List of Master Bootmakers
  • Dr. Watson Is Not Himself Luminous, and Other Blonde Jokes -- remarks at the Bootmakers' annual dinner, January 29, 2000

    Also in Canada:

  • The Bimetallic Question of Montréal
  • The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen (Calgary)
  • The Spence Munros of Halifax

    Societies in the United States — east

  • Three Garridebs of Westchester County
  • Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit
  • Sons of the Copper Beeches, Philadelphia
  • Watson's Tin Box (Maryland)
  • Mycroft's League, Philadelphia
  • The Baker Street Breakfast Club, Vermont
  • Mrs. Hudson's Cliffdwellers, New Jersey
  • Sherlock Holmes Society of Buffalo
  • Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston
  • The Ribston Pippins | Newspaper article about Detroit-area societies
  • White Rose Irregulars (York, Pennsylvania)
  • Cremona Fiddlers
  • The Wandering Gipsies (Decatur, Alabama)
  • Society of the Naval Treaty (Annapolis)
  • The True History of Mary Morstan's Companions

    Societies in the United States — central

  • The Afghanistan Perceivers (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
  • Notorious Canary-Trainers of Madison
  • Nashville Scholars
  • Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn (St. Charles, Missouri)
  • The Giant Rats of Sumatra (Memphis, Tennessee)
  • Diogenes Club of Dallas
  • The Hansoms of John Clayton, Peoria
  • Waterloo Station (SH Society of Austin, Texas)
  • The Hated Rivals on the Surrey Shore (Indianapolis)
  • Maiwand Jezails (Omaha)
  • McMurdo's Camp (Michigan)

    Societies in the United States — west

  • San Francisco Bay area societies (Lafter Hall)
  • The Blustering Gales from the South-West
  • The Noble and Most Singular Order of the Blue Carbuncle, Portland, Oregon
  • The Sound of the Baskervilles (Washington state)

    Sherlockians in Japan

  • Sherlock Holmes in Japan, by Keith E. Webb
  • The Shoso-in Bulletin
  • Sherlockiana in Japan

    Societies in other lands

  • Sherlock Holmes Society of London,
  • The Danish Baker Street Irregulars
  • The Cimbrian Friends of Baker Street
  • Sherlock Holmes Society of India
  • Circulo Holmes (Spain)
  • The Irregular Special Railway Company
  • 221B — Deutscher Sherlock Holmes Club
  • Société Sherlock Holmes de France
  • L'Escarboucle Bleue
  • Les Evadés de Dartmoor
  • The Poor Folk Upon the Moors
  • Von Herder Airguns Ltd.
  • The Florentine Holmes
  • The Baskerville Hall Club (SherlockHolmes.se)
  • The Swedish Pathological Society
  • Ceská spolecnost Sherlocka Holmese
  • Sherlock Holmes Society of Australia
  • The Sydney Passengers
  • Sherlock Holmes Society of Western Australia
  • The Irregular Special Railway Company
  • The Head Llamas
  • The Common Loafers -- Malaysia
  • The Welshpool Deerstalkers (Wales)

    Special-purpose societies

  • The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Sub-Librarians
  • The Sir James Saunders Society (dermatologists)
  • The Mini-Tonga Society (miniaturists)
  • The Master's Masons
  • The Elusive Bicyclists
  • The Admirable Beach Society

    Electronic societies

  • The Hounds of the Internet
  • Welcome Holmes
  • The Sherlock Holmes Social Network, on 'ning'
  • Other e-mail lists and societies

    Individual Sherlockians

  • Some prominent Sherlockians of the past
  • Home pages of individual Sherlockians
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