Our Work

Our aim is to publicise the Conan Doyle Collection locally and internationally. To do this, we attend and create local events and work with other partners on projects to promote access and to the Collection.

The Detectives

We are pleased to announce that the Conan Doyle Collection has received £65,000 from the Arts Council's National Lottery Project Grants Libraries Fund.

The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, bequeathed to the city of Portsmouth by Richard Lancelyn Green, brings together an unparalleled variety of books, documents and objects connected to Holmes and the life of his creator, including unique photographs, film posters, and letters from the influential and the famous.

The project, called The Detectives, will be working with partners around the city to recruit participants - Detectives - to create community projects to help people who are looking to return to work or start volunteering to gain work based skills and experience that boosts confidence.

Offering places to the most vulnerable residents of our city and giving them the steering wheel to generate community empowerment, the Detectives will be working with artists and authors to deliver projects that showcase this unique world class Collection, including a Pepper's Ghost inspired light project in November and a theatrical programme of events for Summer of Sherlock 2022.

Pepper's Ghost

The following images have been produced by The Detectives under the guidance of InterActive artist William Lindley for Pepper's Ghost.

Recent projects

• City of Stories

• A Study in Scarlet graphic novel