The King-Hall Conference provides a forum for the consideration of naval matters within an historical context. Inviting a variety of speakers to contribute their collective voices encourages us to consider, ...
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HMAS Pioneer – Blockading German East Africa, 1915-16
Nelson’s Coat and the Bullet that Killed Him
Horatio Nelson’s “Trafalgar Coat”, the uniform he was wearing when he was shot, has been reunited with the French musket ball that passed through it and killed him in 1805. ...
The Preservation of Horatio, Lord Nelson’s Body
Much has been written about Nelson in the lead up to this bicentenary of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar and here the author dispels the myth of “Nelson’s ...