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The Coming of the Fairies - The Cottingley Incident

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England. In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 9. The pictures came to the atten...

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Modern Wisdom

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Modern Wisdom

Harford recounted that Conan Doyle wrote The Coming of the Fairies about fairy photographs, initially treating them as possible evidence before revealing they were hoaxes, and highlighted his fascination with the case.

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And he wrote a whole book, The Coming of the Fairies. He said, well, obviously this could be a hoax and you'd be the judge. But I think more likely it is an epochmaking discovery. Spoiler, it was not...

— Episode: #548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Cle...

Episode: #548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Di...

Harford recounted that Conan Doyle wrote The Coming of the Fairies about fairy photographs, initially treating them as possible evidence before revealing they were hoaxes, and highlighted his fascination with the case.

"

And he wrote a whole book, The Coming of the Fairies. He said, well, obviously this could be a hoax and you'd be the judge. But I think more likely it is an epochmaking discovery. Spoiler, it was not an epochmaking discovery. It was a hoax.

Criminal

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Criminal

The hosts discussed the title while examining Conan Doyle's involvement with the Cottingley fairy photographs, noting that he published a 1922 book that compiled his earlier articles and detailed his investigation. They pointed out that the book presented the photographs as genuine evidence for his spiritualist beliefs, offering a factual overview of his perspective.

Episode: A Glamour and a Mystery

Conan Doyle wrote a book about the whole investigation called "The Coming of the Fairies", three years after publishing two articles about the Cottingley Fairies photographs in The Strand magazine.

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A few months after he published the first article he published a second one with two of the remaining three photographs and in 1922 Conan Doyle published a book about the whole investigation that he called The Coming of the Fairies

Episode: A Glamour and a Mystery

This book was published in 1922 about Arthur Conan Doyle's investigation into the Cottingley fairy photographs. He believed the photographs were real and used them as evidence to support his spiritualist beliefs.

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In 1922, Conan Doyle published a book about the whole investigation that he called The Coming of the Fairies.

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

It was mentioned that Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, was writing a book about fairies at the time of the events in the episode.

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He was about to publish a book called The Coming of the Fairies.

— Episode: 544 - Houdini vs Margery - live

Episode: 544 - Houdini vs Margery - live

It was mentioned that Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, was writing a book about fairies at the time of the events in the episode.

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He was about to publish a book called The Coming of the Fairies.

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