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This is my second attempt at this issue’s Dispatch! The first was ‘lost at sea’ in the internet ether while I was sailing in the West Indies lecturing on The Golden Age of the Royal Navy during the long 18th century. It wasn’t very good anyway! Now because of the short deadline to get my Dispatch to you, this one will be relatively short and less philosophical than usual.
We are approaching the Annual General Meeting on 12 May at The East India Club, St James’s Square, London and you will have seen my Report to Council. I should like to highlight the significant difference the Libor Grant is having on the way the Club is arranging its professional activities, governance and administration, the thrill that this boost has given to all of our activities, and the positive shadow it is casting over the Club’s reputation. It is probably too soon to draw conclusions but coincidentally our membership has begun to rise and we have passed 500 again – not seen since 2005! I suspect that this has also been helped by The Trafalgar Chronicle New Series 2 edited by Peter Hore, another tour de force from Peter that last year caught the attention of the US Marine Corps who ordered 500 copies!
