Hello and welcome to the Restless History, Dominic. Have you heard the latest exciting news about our live tour?

I have, Dominic. It's actually shocking news. It's shocking but also heartening. But just to remind you the listener, the rest is history is going on a nationwide tour at the end of April 2023.

I say tour but it's for three nights only. We'll be in London on the 25th of April and the historic Drury Lane Theatre. Then we'll be able to Edinburgh the following evening on the 26th of April to play at Usher Hall.

And we will finish on the 30th of April at the Larry in Sulford Greater Manchester. But Tom, the listeners are gacking to know about this shocking news that you have for them about the tour.

Ladies and gentlemen, I can announce that our London live show has now sold out. I repeat, all 2000 seats, yes 2000 seats at Drury Lane Theatre are now sold out.

So not even frozen the musical. The show that we are of course replacing at Drury Lane, not even frozen sold out that quickly.

I can imagine Elsa listening to this right now, fuming at the very thought of the rest is history stealing her snowy thunder. But Elsa, all I will say to you is let it go.

People can go to both shows. But just to emphasize, that's our first live date already sold out. And tickets are selling incredibly quickly for Sulford and Edinburgh too.

So if you do want to come, please buy your ticket right now to avoid disappointment. Now, if you've never been to one of our live shows, what a treat or wait. So we have an incredibly inventive approach.

Tom will take the first half and he will be running through his repertoire of Marilyn Monroe songs and I do be the do thanks for that. And I will be picking up after the interval with the PowerPoint presentation on the economic policies of Stanley Baldwin.

It's an absolute riots fun for all the family. So these are our first ever shows outside London as a podcast. So we'll be putting on a tour de force. I think Dominic is the only word for it in both greater Manchester and the Scottish Capitol.

There'll be impressions, perhaps some Uruguayan pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straightforward. That is www.restishistory pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

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Knowledge of literature, Neil, knowledge of philosophy, Neil, knowledge of astronomy, Neil, knowledge of politics, feeble, knowledge of Christianity, profound plays the violin well as an expert single stick player boxer and cricketer has a good practical knowledge of British history.

So read john Watson's description of my co presenter Tom Holland. Oh Dominic, adapt to you are too kind. Adapted from here. Very similar description of Sherlock Holmes, which makes you doctor Watson.

It does unfortunately. So I walked right into that didn't I bring your sense of representative of the of the British middle classes. I'll take that. So yes, today's topic is a fictional character but one rooted in history and obviously a historical phenomenon in and of himself.

And that is of course Sherlock Holmes. Tom Sherlock Holmes. We've had a lot of questions about whether what why history podcast is doing an episode about Sherlock Holmes. Have we?

We have and I think one one one way to answer that is with another question from Ian at L this 717. How much of the view or myth of the Victorian Victorian era stems from the home stories. So I think that's a crucial part of it.

I think there's a huge sense in which our sense in the in the 20th century, 21st century of the late Victorian period is profoundly shaped by Sherlock Holmes.

But I think also I mean, I think you can you could say about Sherlock Holmes that he is probably the best the single best known literary figure ever created globally.

I think there's a lot of a lot of truth in that actually. Jesus would be possible alternative, but I mean he he he he is instantly recognizable and so I think that you know you've written about the way that Britain has created all these kind of literary myths.

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