Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-6145611-20131029123022/@comment-188432-20131119025434

Where are you getting that date from? Real life? If so, you are committing a basic Doctor Who error. We strongly advise against letting the real world creep into your appreciation of DWU narratives.

There is no mention of Arms and the Man in The Gallifrey Chronicles. However, there is the statement from Marnal: "George Bernard Shaw was first published in 1884."

There's no indication of what that first publication was.

The party the Doctor attended was, according to the Eighth Doctor, "March 1895. Around the time of the McCarthy murder."

But there's absolutely no information that connects this date to any Shaw publication.

The only Shaw publication that gets a mention in the book is, appropriately enough, The Doctor's Dilemma. But it's just a mention.