Nelson The Sailor
The misunderstood life & times of Horatio Nelson

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The Divine Comedy Sing… Trafalgar
As with most Divine Comedy songs, you wonder why ‘Trafalgar’ isn’t better known. I’m not sure how it escaped me for so long.
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The One With Emma Hamilton
Lady Emma Hamilton, the great love of Horatio Nelson’s life, was born OTD in 1765. She began life a peasant, then married into high society, had an affair – and a lovechild – with the most famous sailor in the world, and somehow died a pauper. It’s a long and hair-raising story, which I intend to go into in more detail in my longer reads section in the coming days. Today, though, I will quickly tell you how she ended up in an episode of Friends… Below is one of the many portraits of Emma as a teenager by the…
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St George’s Day
I’ve never really understood what these ‘Saint’ days are all about. But, seeing as it is St George’s Day – in which we English purport to celebrate a Turkish soldier killing an imaginary dragon in Libya roughly two millennia ago – I thought I’d share an anecdote that is stonkingly patriotic even by Nelson’s high standards…
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The Chipping Forecast – My favourite Nelson monument
It always amazes/disappoints me to see how little Nelson is celebrated in our shared home county of Norfolk…
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