The Trafalgar Chronicle

Dr. Sean Heuvel Announcement
Location
United Kingdom
Subject Fields
British History / Studies, European History / Studies, Maritime History / Studies, Military History

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE

PUBLICATION DATE: DECEMBER 2020

 

THEME: NELSON AND THE GEORGIAN NAVY AS PORTRAYED IN ART, FILM, AND LITERATURE

 

For over two decades, the Trafalgar Chronicle has been the flagship scholarly publication of the 1805 Club, with an international membership. The mission of the 1805 Club is to preserve the history, memorials, and monuments of the Royal Navy during the Georgian Era (sometimes called Nelson’s Navy) from approximately 1775 to 1830. The Trafalgar Chronicle is an essential component of that mission. It is published annually by Seaforth Publications, maintaining a global readership.  

 

For the 2020 edition, the editors are seeking carefully-researched articles on “Portrayals of Nelson and/or the Georgian Navy in Art, Film, and Literature”. We want your analysis of how the Georgian Navy has been portrayed in paintings, drawings and prints, ceramics, sculpture, literature (historic fiction and non-fiction), films, screenplays, and documentaries.

 

Contributors are invited to address and analyze the manner in which a particular art-form or an artist or a group of artists have portrayed the people, technologies, accomplishments, victories, losses, admiralty, uniforms, or life-at-sea in the Royal Navy of the Georgian Era. What is accurate and what is inaccurate or misleading?? How could such works shape or influence today’s concepts about the Royal Navy in the Georgian Era? How has a particular genre evolved in portraying some aspect of the Georgian Navy? What symbolism do we find in these portrayals and how can that symbolism be interpreted?

 

In each issue, we are also interested in one or two general interest articles with some unique perspective on the Georgian Navy. We are looking at having a regular feature called “Places that Remember Nelson: Then and Now - concerning the changing times and environments of Nelson monuments and statues – also the before and after of restoration efforts.

 

Submission Guidelines: Please submit (A) An abstract of no more than 500 words; (B) A biographical sketch of no longer than 100 words; (C) An author CV. Submittals are due by July 1, 2019.  Applicants will be notified of their acceptance status by September 1, 2019. Submit all proposals and inquiries to tc.editor@1805Club.org. Author guidelines are available upon request.

 

Articles should be 2000 to 5000 words long. Authors are advised to use Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) format. All articles are due February 1, 2020, at which point they will be edited and, in some cases, submitted to peer review.  Articles will be returned to authors with comments, edits, questions, and recommendations by April 1, 2020. Revised articles will be due May 1, 2020.  Publication will be after October 1, 2020.

 

All contributors will be asked to provide at least 3 or 4 high resolution images.  At least one of them should be in colour and sufficiently high-res to be used in a centre colour block.  If images are to be in-text, please indicate where they should go.  All images should be accompanied by a proposed caption, date, author, and source.   We have a small budget if you need to pay an archive for the rights.

 

We will also ask each author to submit a reasonably good colour photo of yourself from the neck up, so that readers can see what you look like.

 

Journal: Trafalgar Chronicle

Sponsoring Organization: The 1805 Club, London, UK

Readership: International – Historians of the Georgian Era of the Royal Navy

Editors: Dr. Sean Heuvel, Christopher Newport University

              Captain John Rodgaard, US Navy, Retired

            Dr. Judith E. Pearson, freelance writer and copyeditor

 

Contact tc.editor@1805Club.org.

Contact Information

Dr. Sean Heuvel

Assistant Professor - Christopher Newport University

Co-Editor - The Trafalgar Chronicle

Contact Email
tc.editor@1805Club.org