Sherlockian.Net: Societies
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'
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 ¡ª 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
The Baker Street Irregulars Trust
BSI Archival History ? Blog
A band that shares nothing except the name
Canada's national society 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 Montr¨¦al
The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen (Calgary)
The Spence Munros of Halifax
The Stormy Petrels of British Columbia
Societies in the United States ¡ª east
Three Garridebs of Westchester County
The Red Circle of Washington
Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit
Watson's Tin Box (Maryland)
The Baker Street Breakfast Club, Vermont
Mrs. Hudson's Cliffdwellers, New Jersey
Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston
The Ribston Pippins | Newspaper article about Detroit-area societies
White Rose Irregulars (York, Pennsylvania)
Society of the Naval Treaty (Annapolis)
The Pleasant Places of Florida
Societies in the United States ¡ª central
The Hounds of the Baskerville [sic] (Chicago)
The Norwegian Explorers (Minnesota)
The Afghanistan Perceivers (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis
Nashville Scholars
Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn (St. Charles, Missouri)
The Giant Rats of Sumatra (Memphis, Tennessee)
The Younger Stamfords (Iowa City)
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)
The Original Tree Worshippers of Rock County (Wisconsin)
Societies in the United States ¡ª west
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
Societies in other lands
Sherlock Holmes Society of London,
Sherlock Holmes Journal
Trip to Copenhagen, August 2001
Sherlock Holmes Society of Scotland
Sherlock Holmes Society, Cheltenham
The Sydney Passengers
Crew of the SS May Day, Northern Ireland
The Danish Baker Street Irregulars
The Cimbrian Friends of Baker Street
Sherlock Holmes Society of India
Chinese Sherlockian Society
Circulo Holmes (Spain)
The Irregular Special Railway Company
221B ¡ª Deutscher Sherlock Holmes Club
Soci¨¦t¨¦ Sherlock Holmes de France
L'Escarboucle Bleue
Les Evad¨¦s 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
Cesk¨¢ spolecnost Sherlocka Holmese
Sherlock Holmes Society of Australia
Sherlock Holmes Society of Western Australia
The Irregular Special Railway Company
The Head Llamas
The Common Loafers ¡ª Malaysia
The Welshpool Deerstalkers (Wales)
The Reichenbach Irregulars (Switzerland)
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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