- Tuesday 8 June 2021
- Location
- Online event
- Interval
- Every day
- Until
- Thursday 17 November 2022
- Cost
- Free
- Type
- Exhibitions
- Audience
- General public
Just over one hundred years ago Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the Cottingley fairies photographs in “The Strand Magazine”.
But how did the literary genius behind this detective mastermind Sherlock Holmes get fooled by fake fairies?
Now, you can discover the secrets behind the greatest hoax of the twentieth century in this special online exhibition and curator’s talk.
Explore items from the University of Leeds Special Collections, which holds nearly all of the most important documents and artefacts relating to the Cottingley fairies, in this online exhibition The Cottingley Fairies: A Study in Deception.
Listen to guest curator Dr Merrick Burrow as he gives an insight into how two young girls from Yorkshire fooled the world.
To view the online exhibition and talk, visit the Galleries website.