Publications
The Nelson Dispatch is the quarterly journal of The Nelson Society and is distributed free to members. The production of this journal is the responsibility of the Editor and is the principal vehicle of communication between members. Reports on all aspects of Society activities and forthcoming events are included. Articles from many sources are published and there is always new material surfacing from a worldwide membership. The Nelson Dispatch includes query and correspondence columns which provide both stimulus and, generally, answers. A colour centrefold of a Nelson related scene is included in each issue and unfolded copies are available to collectors. The Sales List of items marketed by the Society is continually updated.
Dr James Beresford, Editor,The Nelson Dispatch
Publication dates: 1st. January: 1st April: 1st. July: 1st. October Articles, letters etc. should arrive one month before publication.
Tombs, Memorials and Graves: We are always anxious to hear about the last resting places of officers, sailors and marines who fought under Nelson’s command. There are many thousands of such clues hidden away in churches and graveyards all over Britain and Europe. If you stumble across one – please let us know.
Annual membership of The Nelson Society includes a free copy of The Nelson Dispatch, published quarterly, and currently distributed to 22 countries world-wide.
Quarterly Journal of The Nelson Society
Limited number of back issues available @ £4.50 each or £30.00 per volume of twelve issues.
Indexes to The Nelson Dispatch, volume 7 @ £4.00 inc. p&p
Binders for The Nelson Dispatch @ £6.00 inc. p&p
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THE NELSON SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Currently No Orders are being taken for publications
Current Publications
HMS Vanguard at The Nile
By Eric Tushingham, John Morewood & Derek Hayes
Price £7.50
A Nelson Society Publication
To mark the bi-centenary of the Battle of the Nile, 1st. August 1798, which took place at Aboukir Bay off Egypt the Nelson Society has produced a detailed account of the action. The book includes a commentary on the events leading up to the battle, the battle itself and the aftermath and it’s significance to the Napoleonic War.
In this book we include a full Muster List of the crew of HMS Vanguard, Nelson’s flagship, together with personal histories of some of those men. On the 1st. August 1998 The Nelson Society launched the book at the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth Dockyard in the shadow of Nelson’s last and most famous flagship, HMS Victory.
Admiral Nelson and Joseph Haydn
By Otto Erich Deutsch
Price £15.00
Nelson’s Flagship at Copenhagen HMS Elephant – The men, the ship, the battle
By Eric Tushingham & Clifford Mansfield
Price £7.50
Nelson’s Overland Return in 1800
By Thomas Blumel
Price £4.50
Countdown to Victory
By Peter Goodwin
Keeper & Curator of HMS Victory
101 Questions and Answers about HMS Victory
Price £7.00
Admiral Lord Nelson & HMS Victory
A youngster’s publication by Peter Green
Topsail Group by Peter Green
Price £2.50
Nelsoniana 1805 – 1905
Edited by David Shannon
Price £4.50
The Battle of Copenhagen Roads
by Captain Finn Volke and “Invincible” 1765 – 1801
By Derek Hayes (Combined volume)
Price £4.50
Admiral Lord Nelson
A pamphlet by Rona Dickinson
Price £1.00
The Nelson Portraits
By Richard Walker
Price £44.00
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
By Anthony Blackmore
Price £11.00
Nelson Commemorated in Glass Pictures
By L. P. Le Quesne
Price £26.85
NELSON and BATH
Copies our still available of this guide book including postage for £5 within the uk, an indispensable guide to Nelson and his contemporaries in Bath. Please send cheque payable to the Nelson Society with A5 stamped addressed envelope to ;Louis Hodgkin, Mill Farm,Woolley, Bath ,BA18AP
By Louis Hodgkin
Price £5.00
Nelson and Bath is a practical guide, beyond Nelson’s visits early in his career. Bath was a second home to his family, his wife Frances established their first home. How Nelson’s victories were celebrated, plus details of nearly fifty contemporaries, who came or stayed in the City, gives a glimpse of the Navy in this bustling eighteenth century Spa. 60 pages 16b/w illustrations and a plan of the City.













I am researching family history and am seeking to confirm a claim that we are in some way related to Lord Nelson. I am wondering if any genealogical records are available that might show descendants.
Dear Robyn Lenhard, Had grown up with the same legend as being related to Lord Nelson. According to Winifred Gerin’s book ‘Horatia’, Emma Hamilton gave birth to twins, the second of which had survived and was placed in St Pancras Foundling Hospital and christened Emma Hamilton in 1801. I believe we are related to that twin, and would be interested in cross checking your ancestors to see if they fit into my analysis of this. Edwin Wilson