About Short Reads
Passing thoughts and more personal things about Nelson and his times. Be warned, some pieces I write may border on the silly.
‘Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war,
Don Juan: Canto the First, Lord Byron, 1818
And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d’
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Happy Birthday, Napoleon: A Brief Reflection on His Rivalry with Nelson
It’s Napoleon’s birthday. For those that celebrate.
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Closed – The Norfolk Nelson Museum
A short piece of Norfolk’s surprising lack of a Nelson museum
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Another Nelson Monument – Norwich Railway Station
These steel figures were erected outside Norwich station in 2013. When the BBC reported on them, their headline was ‘Stephen Fry figure unveiled in Norwich’. Nelson and Edith Cavell were bit-part players.
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England Expects
England expects. For years, I hated that phrase. Find out why.
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Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth (1999)
There are plenty of Nelson biographies out there, but he doesn’t make as many appearances in fiction as you might think.
Nelson The Sailor 