An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
Arthur Conan Doyle
10 books referenced
Books by Arthur Conan Doyle
Referenced in 1 episode
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
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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.'
Referenced in 4 episodes
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.
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.
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
January 11, 2021
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Mentioned alongside The White Company as Hundred Years' War fiction
Referenced in 4 episodes
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.
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.
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
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
Referenced in 2 episodes
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
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
Referenced in 1 episode
July 11, 2022
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Referenced as the Sherlock Holmes story for which Lola Montez was 'probably the model for Irene Adler'
Referenced in 2 episodes
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
August 12, 2021
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Referenced as the first Sherlock Holmes novel from 1887
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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
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August 12, 2021
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Referenced as the 1901 Sherlock Holmes novel set before the Reichenbach Falls