The 1805 Dispatches #26.04 August 2026 6 of 8 RECRUITMENT You have read elsewhere of the changes that have taken place in the Board of Trustees and those Associated to the Board. We have a fresh set of Trustees – not all new, as experienced Trustees form the majority, but still a fresh grouping. This is an opportunity for those members who feel they can contribute to the running of The 1805 Club to step up to the mark. Please either use the Skills button on our website, or contact our new Secretary, Trustee Jude Wilson, at secretary@1805club.org, and express your interest. Various roles wait to be filled, or refilled. You will never be expected to commit more time and effort than you are comfortable with. The ongoing vitality of the Club is important, and you may be one of those who help maintain it. And have more fun as a result! The 1805 Club is a club, the clue is in the name. But what all of us must remember is that the Club is a charity, originally created to finding memorials to past naval personnel of the long Georgian period and to try our best to ensure that they be properly remembered. To further this end we also encourage and support research into naval history and find ways to improve its education. None of this is cheap if it is to be done well, and ‘done well’ is the only way to do things. In common with all other charities, we can only fully carry out our promises if we can raise enough funds to do so. In future publications you will see a reminder that there are ways to make a donation, whenever you might find a bit of surplus cash, together with ways to purchase merchandise and secondhand books that have been kindly donated to the Club for the very purpose of fundraising. Give at our main website: http://1805club.org/ or use these links: For the Flagship Fund go to http://bit.ly/ 1805ClubFlagshipFund or for The Trafalgar Way go to http://thetrafalgarway.org/ For our shop, try https://www.1805club.org/shop, or click on one of the images opposite . . . Nelson Portrait At His Desk on Victory £100 Used Books £10 each Past copies of Trafalgar Chronicle £15 each The Trafalgar Way Official Storymap £19.99 Nelson Portrait No.2 £100 (Both portraits by Jessica Turgoose) Club members already know that we publish a scholarly yearbook, The Trafalgar Chronicle, a twice-yearly magazine, The Kedge Anchor, and a two-monthly digital newsletter, The 1805 Dispatches (this one). All issued free to members. Following last September's very successful first of our 'New Series' of conferences, we are currently preparing the publication of a book of The 1805 Club Conference Proceedings 2025, which will include the fully illustrated complete transcript of all papers presented therein. This will be received free of charge by all Club members and will be available for purchase by non-members. On 1 June this year a gathering of members and friends were privileged to attend the presentation of a paper about Admiral Lord Howe at the Lord Speaker's River Room in the House of Lords, by Club Trustee, Natacha Abriat. It was very ably presented in English, despite French being Natacha's native tongue. The paper provided new knowledge (as even the present Earl Howe was happy to admit) of the Battle of the Glorious First of June, and the British admiral, from the French national point of view. On the day, Natacha's excellent presentation was limited by time. We are very pleased to announce that an enhanced version of her paper will be published in book form, incliding the many illustrations used in the presentation, together with additional material offered by the Earl Howe from his family archives, some of which has not previously been published. This will also be received free of charge by all Club members and will be available for purchase by non-members. FUTURE PUBLICATIONS
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