Major-General Julian Thompson has kindly written the introduction and I wish to thank him, and to express my gratitude and great thanks to a wide variety of others, Brian Carter, Sim Comfort, Anthony Cross, Agustín Guimerá, Joan Thomas and Peter Turner among them, who have helped me to identify writers and source pictures, and to several referees who shall remain anonymous. Special thanks go to Geoff Hunt for allowing the publication of his painting Lobsters. All have given freely and readily of their advice and services. I also wish to thank the contributors who responded to my calls and questions and suffered patiently my ‘red spider’. This year I received a large number of excellent articles which I have not been able to fit in, and which I hope to hold over for another year. I thank these contributors too. Also, a great debt of gratitude goes to a first-class editorial team at Seaforth. The editor’s appointment is for three to five years, and this is my third edition. Given that the lead-time for each edition is about eighteen months, I am looking for a successor. A job description is available and a small honorarium is payable. You need to be an experienced editor, knowledgeable about the period, and to have a wide network of colleagues and contemporaries in the field. The appointment is made by the council of The 1805 Club, but in the first instance and for more information, please contact me at tc.editor@1805club.org. As for the Trafalgar Chronicle in 2018, I have already announced plans to theme the next edition on women and the sea in the age of sail. Women have, for various reasons, left a light footprint in the sands of history – nevertheless, I have long thought that historians (mainly men) have unfairly overlooked women and their important role in the tide of events. My views were reinforced when I read dr Margarette Lincoln’s words in a recent book that ‘Women’s contribution to British naval supremacy in the long eighteenth century tends to be neglected or sensationalised’, and in the next edition I intend to redress the balance. I have promises of some excellent contributions and I am looking for more. First-time papers by undergraduates and by students of the period are particularly welcome, and proposals should be made to the editor at tc.editor@1805club.org. The deadline for copy for the next Trafalgar Chronicle, number 3 in the new series, is 1 May 2018. PETERHORE Rabanal del camino 1 June 2017 THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE 10
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