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Horatio Nelson

October 2021

  • A portrait of Horatio Nelson

    Musical tributes to Nelson found in Lady Hamilton’s songbooks

    Four pieces, written by personal friends of the admiral, discovered at Museum of London during lockdown

April 2021

  • Compton Verney. ‘The Festival of the Madonna dell’Arco’, 1777, oil on canvas, Pietro Fabris (active c.1740–1804), Compton Verney

    The Great British Art Tour
    The Great British Art Tour: what connects a bleeding fresco with Lady Hamilton?

    With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: The Festival of the Madonna dell’Arco by Pietro Fabris at Compton Verney in Warwickshire

February 2021

  • Lady Emma Hamilton

    Nelson urged mistress to give their baby girl 'new' smallpox vaccine

    Naval hero praises Jenner’s cowpox jab in a newly found love letter to Emma Hamilton, written as he prepared for war

September 2020

  • Guy Hewitt

    Long live Barbados as a republic, soon to be free of tarnished 'global Britain'

    Guy Hewitt
    The shameful Windrush scandal altered perceptions of the ‘mother country’, says former Barbados high commissioner to the UK Guy Hewitt

June 2018

  • Lord Nelson's watch used by him during Battle of Trafalgar

    Lord Nelson's watch expected to fetch up to £450,000 at Sotheby's

  • William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

    Don’t knock Nelson for failing to fight slavery – he had a war to look after

January 2018

  • Part of the flag believed to have flown from Nelson’s ship Victory at the battle of Trafalgar, which is expected to sell for up to £100,000

    Fragment of Nelson's flag from Battle of Trafalgar up for sale

    Sotheby’s to auction rare surviving piece of union flag flown from HMS Victory during admiral’s greatest – and final – victory

December 2017

  • A 1797 portrait of Lord Nelson

    Petulant and jealous: Lord Nelson letters reveal his less noble side

    Correspondence to be sold by Sotheby’s shows his love for Emma Hamilton and sense of frustration when not in combat

October 2017

  • Nelson was presented with the Chelengk by Sultan Selim III of Turkey after the Battle of the Nile in 1798.

    Lord Nelson’s rotating gems recreated decades after original was stolen

    Royal Navy museum in Portsmouth to display replica of admiral’s ‘bizarre’ diamond-laden plume on Trafalgar Day

August 2017

  • Nelson's Column

    We wouldn’t put up a statue to Nelson or Robert E Lee today

    Letters: Robert E Lee was undoubtedly a supporter of slavery

May 2017

  • Conservator and restorer Valerie Kaufmann with a waxwork head of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson in a CT scanner before it is examined in the radiology department at St Thomas’ hospital.

    Off with their heads: 3D scans reveal Lord Nelson and PM Pitt's secrets

    Wax portrait heads of historical figures captured in extraordinary detail in pioneering partnership of art and science

November 2016

  • A strange, powerful journey into the aesthetics of another age ... Study of Emma Hart as Circe, around 1782, by George Romney.

    Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity review – the betrayal of Nelson's mistress

    National Maritime Museum, London
    She was the irresistible beauty from the brothels who captivated Europe. This vivid show is a glorious reminder of her rise and fall

October 2016

  • Emma Hamilton by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

    Emma Hamilton portrait bought by her lover Lord Nelson to go on display

    Vigée Le Brun painting joins exhibition centred on extraordinary life of the woman famed for being Nelson’s mistress

October 2015

  • Horatio Nelson’s uniform, left, and the union flag that flew at the Battle of Trafalgar at the National Maritime Museum.

    Union flag from Nelson's fleet unfurled again to mark Trafalgar Day

    The union jack that flew from HMS Minotaur at the 1805 battle will go on display at the National Maritime Museum after a century on a church wall

February 2015

  • Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory now stands in dry dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

    How HMS Victory nearly never made it to the Battle of Trafalgar

    Chatham dockyard 250th anniversary exhibition tells previously untold stories of Royal Navy vessel that became Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship

August 2014

  • William Pitt the Younger, as painted by John Hoppner (detail): 'We might as well issue stamps with p

    The shortcomings of national heroes

    Letters: In practically everything he wrote, Nelson revealed himself as a man convinced of his own superiority and rectitude

May 2010

  • Details of Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare

    Nelson's ship sets sail on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

    From stern to starboard, take a closer look at Yinka Shonibare's giant sculpture of Horatio Nelson's ship, unveiled today in Trafalgar Square

September 2008

  • Lord Nelson, a popular subject for historians

    Top 10s
    Roy and Lesley Adkins's top 10 Nelson books

    Where do you start with the hundreds of books about Horatio Nelson? To mark his 250th birthday, two historians single out the 10 best

July 2006

  • Lord Nelson gets a facelift

    Lord Horatio Nelson will be looking his best in time for Trafalgar Square's tourist crowds this summer, after three months of restoration work was completed today.

October 2005

  • Service commemorates 200th anniversary of Trafalgar

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