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Note from the Editor: Hi! Hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Dogwatches Chapter One by

barefoot_bard; Original; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Original Characters; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
Dogwatches Chapter 2 by

barefoot_bard; Original; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Original characters; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
The Sea Service by

barefoot_bard; Show the Colours; K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above); Cotton, Newbury, Chase, Padstowe; Show the Colours AU; Some sailors observe the discomfort of the soldiers they are transporting to Portugal. At sea, 1809.
A Temporary Shelter by

astolat; American Revolution RPF; M; Alexander Hamilton/George Washington; In which Washington and Hamilton are driven by necessity to seek shelter together.
Learning to Trust by

sharpiefan; Show the Colours; 12; Cotton/Maggie; It is very hard to learn to trust again once you've been badly hurt. Sometimes you just have to take it slowly...
Tigers at Night Part IIB by

marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; R (for aftermath of violence); Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Tigers at Night Part IIC by

marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; PG; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Honeysuckle by

barefoot_bard; Show the Colours; K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above); Cotton, Maggie, original characters; Cotton pretends to have forgotten something important.
The Other Side of the Hill by

sharpiefan; Show the Colours; Cotton, Maggie, Vickery, Emma Vickery; They had wanted to have more than the simple jumping the broomstick, but had never been able to, not in Portugal, not in Spain, not when they finally got into France.
The Aubreyad Big Bang Fic by

sid,

latin_cat,

esteven,

feroxagentea,

alltoseek,

heather_mist with artwork by

amethystshard; Aubreyad; PG-13; Jack/Stephen, Jack/Sophie; It’s finally here! The Big Bang fic you’ve been waiting six months for! The BIGGEST, the LONGEST and the MOST EPIC fic EVER to have graced the Age of Sail...

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:

wayward_shadows posts some Crimean photographs

sharpiefan reminds us about the NAM Lunchtime lecture on the 29th March: Wellington's First Battle - The Combat at Boxtel

Miscellany and meta:

sharpiefan asks Is anyone interested in RPing the Age of Sail

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read is reading Chapter Two of Hundred Days

Rec of the Week:
A fic from the recent Yuletide (I daren't say 'this year's' and to call it 'last year's' sounds... wrong.) A Naval Romance by

shirasade; Persuasion; PG; Admiral Croft, Sophia Croft, Frederick Wentworth, Original Characters, Sophie Wentworth met George Croft for the first time when the family went to see Frederick off on his first sea voyage as a midshipman of barely 12 years.

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