It is with great sadness that we announce the death on Christmas Day 2008 of Captain Dr Colin White, FSA, FRHistS, MA. Colin was a passionate Nelson expert who in the twenty-first century occupied a special place during the bicentenary commemorations of the British admiral. His death is a great loss for the Nelsonian and Napoleonic worlds. The Fondation Napoléon offers its sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Victoria’s Navy: the End of the Sailing Navy 1815–1870, Havant: Mason, 1981
Victoria’s Navy: the Heyday of Steam 1870–1910, Emsworth: Mason, 1983
The Nelson Companion, Stroud: Sutton, 1995 (2nd ed. 2005)
1797: Nelson’s Year of Destiny, Stroud: Sutton, 1998
The Nelson Encyclopaedia, London: Chatham, 2002 (2nd ed. 2005) Further details
Nelson: the new letters, London: The Boydell Press 2005 (2nd ed. 2006) [Awarded the Distinguished Book Award, by the Society for Military History, 2006] Further details
The Trafalgar Captains: their lives and memorials, London: Chatham, 2005
Nelson the Admiral, Stroud: Sutton, 2005
Articles:
“Nelson’s 1805 battle plan”, Journal of Maritime Research, May 2002
“The Nelson Touch: the evolution of Nelson’s tactics at Trafalgar”, Journal of Maritime Research, July 2005
“A man of business: Nelson as Commander in Chief Mediterranean, 1803-5”, Mariner’s Mirror, Vol 91, 2005, pp175-194
“‘Ever with real esteem’: Continuing the Nelson Letters Project”, The Trafalgar Chronicle, Vol 16, 2006, pp.44-49
“The Wife’s Tale – Frances Lady Nelson and the breakdown of her marriage”, Women’s History Review, Vol 15, 2006, pp. 105-133