About Longer Reads
This page will largely feature extracts from my upcoming Nelson biography, Lamented Hero. These pieces will be ideal content for the train to work, idling in bed, or loafing on the loo.
‘Popular applause is very acceptable and grateful to me, but no man ought to be too much elated by it. It is too precarious to be depended upon, and it may be my turn to feel the tide set as strong against me as ever it did for me.’
Horatio Nelson
Longer Reads
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Nelson Loses An Arm
On this day – July 24th, 1797 – Nelson lost his arm. It wasn’t pretty. Read about it here!
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Nelson (Almost) Loses An Eye
It was on this day – July 12th – in 1794 that Horatio Nelson suffered lasting damage to his right eye.
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A Street Cat Named Nelson (Churchill & Nelson – part 1)
The charming story of an unlikely friendship.
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The Death of Nelson’s Mother
The death of Horatio’s mother is a tragedy cloaked in secrecy. He maintained a lifelong tight-lip on the matter…
Nelson The Sailor 