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1. This song has, for no real reason at all besides the fact that the movie has style and it has style, become my RDJ!Holmes and Law!Watson touchstone.

2. A series of useful links for background, heavily Watson-centric:

Primer on Second/Third Afghan War, and a super-useful Watson-centric analysis.

Detailed breakdown of the Battle of Maiwand, where Watson was injured.

66th Royal Berkshires, the unit that Watson was seconded to since his original regiment had already left for Afghanistan by the time he arrived in Bombay.

The bit in Study in Scarlet laying out Watson's backstory.

JSTOR article on duties of regimental medical officers in British Army, though admittedly about thirty years later.

Booth's Poverty Maps of London, showing street-by-street breakdowns of London's socioeconomic classes starting towards the end of the Holmesian ACD canon period.

3. Website with the art from the movie, as well as my favorite art bits from this other movie that I kinda sorta love.