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Call for papers - HMS Victory conference - see full details here.

Bermuda Travel Update (from the Hon. Secretary)
 
The prices are coming in slightly higher than the original quote now (£1250.00 per person for a double room and £1858.00 for a single room) for 7-12th June for the Rosedon Hotel Bermuda. This price is a guide: prices will rise, but once you have booked with BA your price is fixed.
 
If anyone wishes to travel on different dates, it would require a separate booking (outside the 4/8) so people can add extra days onto their stay.

However, a BA sale starts in January so I shall make the group booking then.

The deposit rules have now changed, so you will now pay just £150 per person deposit, with the balance due 10 weeks before departure.

So please contact me asap if you wish to be part of the group booking
 
Ann

A new DVD examines the history of Devonport dockyard. The DVD is entitled 'Plymouth Dock - Yard' and includes a bonus DVD on 'Devonport Past and Present'. It is available, price £12.99 + postage and package of £1.50 from this address. All proceeds are for the museum. 

To celebrate the publication of The Naval Mutinies of 1797: Unity and Perseverance, by NDS secretary Ann Veronica Coats & founder member Philip MacDougall, the publishers Boydell & Brewer are offering a special 25% discount off this and four other recent and forthcoming titles, including John D. Grainger's epic Dictionary of British Naval Battles. Visit the special page: www.boydellandbrewer.com/nds_offer.asp for details of the offer, the books and how to order (online orders get free postage), just be sure to quote reference NDS11. The offer is applicable worldwide and members in North America can also order online or via the Boydell and Brewer office in Rochester, NY.

A booking form and final full details of our 2012 conference in Bermuda (organised jointly with the National Museum of Bermuda) can be found here. Our forthcoming events page includes details of the concurrent Defence Heritage conference at Portsmouth.

The full text of the NDS submission to Lewisham Council about the proposed development at Convoys Wharf, Deptford, together with a large number of photographs of the excavated Royal Dockyard site, can be found here.

IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO JOIN THE NDS ONLINE VIA PAYPAL. It will soon be possible to order our publications directly from this website by the same means.