An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

Arthur Conan Doyle

10 books referenced

Books by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four

Referenced in 1 episode

626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3)

December 15, 2025

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Referenced as a Sherlock Holmes story featuring a bloodhound called Toby, used as comparison when discussing the police's failed experiment with bloodhounds

The Crime of the Congo

Referenced in 1 episode

540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)

February 17, 2025

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Explicitly mentioned as a book that Morel recruited Conan Doyle to write as part of the Congo Reform campaign - 'He gets him to write his own book on the Congo, The Crime of the Congo.'

Sir Nigel

Referenced in 4 episodes

318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1)

April 03, 2023

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Tom mentions this as a book his father read to him, featuring the character 'the red ferret' and culminating in the Battle of Poitiers. Conan Doyle considered it better than Sherlock Holmes.

124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2

November 23, 2021

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Mentioned alongside The White Company as another of Conan Doyle's novels about chivalry set in the medieval period.

85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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Mentioned as the sequel to The White Company, described as 'brilliant' with an account of the Black Death

14. Historical Fiction

January 11, 2021

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Mentioned alongside The White Company as Hundred Years' War fiction

The White Company

Referenced in 4 episodes

318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1)

April 03, 2023

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Mentioned as part of the same series as Sir Nigel, which Arthur Conan Doyle thought was better than Sherlock Holmes.

124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2

November 23, 2021

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Mentioned as one of Conan Doyle's novels about chivalry that the speaker loved, featuring Edward III as a dashing figure.

85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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Mentioned as one of Conan Doyle's historical novels that he really loved writing, set during the Hundred Years' War

14. Historical Fiction

January 11, 2021

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Mentioned as set in Hundred Years' War from English side, featuring Sir John Chandos and the Black Prince

The Lost World

Referenced in 2 episodes

283: Ecuador: Darwin's Adventure to the Galapagos

December 15, 2022

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Referenced when describing the hideous iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, comparing the scene to Conan Doyle's adventure novel

233. The Loch Ness Monster

September 12, 2022

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Referenced when discussing how people in the 1930s grew up reading Conan Doyle's stories about Professor Challenger and lost worlds with surviving dinosaurs

A Scandal in Bohemia

Referenced in 1 episode

206. Historical Love Island

July 11, 2022

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Referenced as the Sherlock Holmes story for which Lola Montez was 'probably the model for Irene Adler'

A Study in Scarlet

Referenced in 2 episodes

190. Jubilees

May 30, 2022

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Mentioned as a literary work from 1887, the year of Victoria's Golden Jubilee, to set the historical context of the era

85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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Referenced as the first Sherlock Holmes novel from 1887

The Valley of Fear

Referenced in 1 episode

190. Jubilees

May 30, 2022

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Referenced as a Sherlock Holmes story that reminds the speaker of the false flag terrorist plot story, involving undercover agents and Americans coming to Britain

A Sign of Four

Referenced in 1 episode

85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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Mentioned as another early Sherlock Holmes novel

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Referenced in 1 episode

85. Sherlock Holmes

August 12, 2021

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Referenced as the 1901 Sherlock Holmes novel set before the Reichenbach Falls