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thinking about nelson's first left-handed letter (to earl st. vincent) after losing his arm at tenerife
:(
Adding some sad sentences in the letter too:
“when I leave your command, I become dead to the world, I go hence and am no seen,”
“I hope you will be able to give me a frigate to convey the remains of my Carcasse in England, God bless you my dear sir believe me your most obligated and faithful, Horatio Nelson”
Don’t get me started on comparing it to his old handwriting
July is Disability Pride Month, which means I should be spending even more time discussing Richard Mentor Johnson—!(is shot five times in a Forlorn Hope)
how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.
Enjoy these glass-plate negatives of a couple in drag, ca. 1900
Action between HMS 'Shannon' and USS 'Chesapeake', 1 June 1813, British school, 19th century (Collection of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London).
‘Throw no shot away. Aim every one. Keep cool. Work steadily. Fire into her quarters. Don’t try to dismast her. Kill the men, and the ship is yours.’
Captain Philip Broke to the Shannon’s crew before the action with the Chesapeake, quoted in "The Battle", Martin Bibbings, in Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812, ed. Tim Voelcker.
SS Great Britain
Bristol, UK
Lesbian sailors circa 1848.
Commissioned by @sherbertilluminated
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troubridge being jealous and desperate and wanting nelson all to himself... #toxicyaoi
Oh wow this makes me SO sad. I knew their friendship waned in later years, but seeing it laid out like this you feel you can see exactly what happened.
I think one of the things that makes Nelson such an interesting historical figure to follow is that he was a proper celebrity in his time, in the modern sense of the word, so we have so much ephemera from the time that people saved, and so still exists for us to read and get a small peek through the crack of the door.
I love these snippets, they're so sad because they're so relatable. You can read about battles and parties and ships and not really get an idea of what anyone was like, but we've all been in situations like this- with friends, family or romantic partners. It reminds me of that quote from 'The Talented Mr.Ripley' - 'The thing with Dickie... It's like the sun shines on you,and it's glorious. And then he forgets you and it's very, very cold'. Someone meeting someone new, and your relationship changing, and taking it very very hard happens today just as it happened to sailors two hundred years ago. Plus then Nelson sending that harsh letter- I've absolutely been in situations like that, where because of distance and distraction a relationship has strained and weakened, and all it takes is some imagined slight to turn it into a fight.
It's one of the reasons why I totally get why a lot of Nelson's shipmates weren't the biggest fans of Emma. I think historians in the past have fallen into the trap of quoting their critiques of her as if it's unbiased factual record of her character. But it's just the classic thing of one of the boys getting a girlfriend so he doesn't want to come hang out anymore. I think there's something so human to that feeling of loss, and expressing it through 'i don't like her, she sucks' .
Poor old Troubridge. We have enough records of his correspondence to get an idea of his personality - and I'm going off memory but I think in his prime he was sorting of blustering and acerbic, So to see him so heartbroken over Nelson is really, really moving.
So I already did a version of this, but it was on my little travel tablet so it looked...ahem...a bit rough
So now I'm home it was time for a redo.
Marianne and Britannia
I felt the urge to doodle a wee bit during a deep dive of primarily early 1900s political cartoons with country personifications included!
One thing led to another… and they became a tad bit queer… ha! :^)
(Re-uploaded sort of)
New documentary from the BBC about American Revolution focusing on the British perspective?
YES PLEASE
Finally a documentary brave enough to tackle Ben Franklin’s weird horny Quaker habits
