Trafalgar in History

DAVID CANNADINE is the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. Since 2005 he has been Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. He is also a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, and the Rothschild Archive, a Commissioner for English Heritage, a Member of the East of England Regional Committee for the National Trust and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Royal Mint. He is Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Past and Present, a member of

• Introduction; D.Cannadine The Fiscal-Military State and the Napoleonic Wars; M.Daunton The British Economy at the Time of Trafalgar: Strengths and Weaknesses; F.Crouzet Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Napoleonic Era; S.Burrows The Ships and Men: The Margin of Superiority; R.Knight Sea Power and Land Power in the Great Wars Against France; N.A.M.Rodger Battle of the Pictures: Painting in the History of Trafalgar; G.Quilley Politics and Memory in Popular Song; M.Philp Commemorating Trafalgar: Preparing for the First Centenary; M.Czisnik The Magic of Trafalgar: The Nineteenth Century Legacy; A.Lambert The Meaning of Trafalgar in World History; P.Kennedy