A very interesting myth-busting article in today’s Sunday Telegraph by Robert Tombs: If Oxfam is right about Empire, then where is my $1 million? Don’t trust the latest report about how the West is to blame for all the world’s ills. It...
Though nothing was officially announced, it would seem some sort of World Championship to find the most fanatical True Believer of them all is underway. The ‘arena’ for this much-anticipated title clash is – of course – Facebook, and the last 48...
We are all used to hearing the same old Boer War myths spewing out of Pretoria University, and being faithfully regurgitated by unreconstructed National Party zealots, and other knuckle-draggers of the Afrikaans Far-Right. It was thus an...
‘If he could have recovered the doctors say he would have been paralysed or would have lost his memory. He was the best type of Englishman’. After their first attempt to storm Ladysmith on 9 November 1899 was defeated, the invading Boers lingered...
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