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    Benito Perez Galdos - Trafalgar - cover
    Kathy Brown
    29/05/20

    Book review: TRAFALGAR by Benito Pérez Galdós

    "Dentro de poco los hombres de unas y otras islas se han de convencer de que hacer un gran disparate armando tan terribles guerras, y llegará un día en que se abrazarán, conviniendo todos en no formas más que una sola familia." Benito Pérez Galdós   "... before long the inhabitants of the different islands will be co...

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    Kathy Brown
    17/07/19

    An Urgent Message - now available to buy

    We're excited to announce that the book featuring the prize-winning collection of stories from our competition, "An Urgent Message", is now for sale on Amazon.  Click here to view and buy in paperback - only £7.95, profits go to The 1805 Club's Trafalgar Way Fund, to help us keep telling the story! The book includes...

    Daisy the Dog at Okehampton
    Kate Jamieson
    28/06/19

    A Dog Named Bounce

    There are a multitude of famous names known throughout the naval world, but this is the story of a dog, an important dog, a naval dog.  Cuthbert Collingwood’s dog…  Collingwood was Horatio Nelson's good friend and fellow naval officer, arguably most well known for having been his second in comma...

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    13/01/19

    Song: The Schooner Pickle

    Guy Chant, a singer and songwriter from Hampshire, loved the story of Lapenotiere and the News of Trafalgar so much that he wrote a song about it! The lyrics are below. It's very accurately observed!Click to listen to Guy's song, "The Schooner Pickle".Upon the Schooner Pickle new orders I receivedTo make full haste to England fr...

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    06/11/18

    Story: An Urgent Message

    For our Autumn 2018 Short Story Competition, we asked writer and campaign consultant Adam Preston, himself a Nelson descendent, to compose a short story entitled 'An Urgent Message'. The idea was to tell the story of The Trafalgar Way in an interesting and engaging way, while providing the children who might take part in the com...

    The Trafalgar Way on BBC news programme Spotlight
    24/09/18

    BBC Spotlight Item on The Trafalgar Way September 2018

    In September 2018, Adam Preston visited some schools along The Trafalgar Way to tell them its story, and to invite young people to enter our own short story competition. Here is an item about the competition as featured on BBC Spotlight, the south-west news programme, on 24th September 2018. ...

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