Besides the deerstalker, magnifying glass and pipe, Sherlock Holmes’ other defining characteristic is his Stradivari violin. Rachael Durkin argues that we’ve overlooked something vital about this instrument for 130 years: it’s a fake. All the time Holmes was wrapping up mysteries, there was a great unsolved one right under his nose. Durkin lays out the evidence and asks what Arthur Conan Doyle was trying to tell us about his great detective.

Woman’s Own magazine played a big role in creating a culture of slimming in post-war Britain. The magazine never tired of creating novel diets, such as the “no-diet diet” and the “350 calorie air hostess diet”. What’s surprising, says Myriam Wilks-Heeg, is how familiar many of the diets seem today.

Learning that cafes in Bruges charge tourists 10% more for chips than locals might elicit a feeling of unfairness. But while many holidaymakers bristle at being seen as a “walking wallet”, Sally Everett is all for differential pricing. Tourist taxes, she argues, promote sustainable tourism and acknowledge the strain visitors can put on fragile infrastructures and communities.

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