Thomas Cromwell's mnemonics --- Thanks for this link to Sherlock Holmes and to the ancient Roman mnemonic technique of assigning topics to rooms in a house (usually round a courtyard, enabling a speaker to return to his starting point at the end). Thomas Cromwell, as depicted in Hilary Mantel's trilogy (Bring up the Bodies, Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light) also used a similar mnemonic, but attached his memories to the details of a painting.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu