A fellow called Peter Dickens writes an excellent blog called ‘The Observation Post’, which is well worth taking a look at: www.samilhistory.com. Mr Dickens writes on a variety of conflicts, but I find his articles about the Boer War especially...
Though separated by many thousands of miles, there are some remarkable parallels between the history of Texas, and that of the Transvaal. The vast territory of Texas had been tentatively settled during the long period of the Spanish Imperial rule...
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy...
They say that the only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about, so I suppose I should be happy that a certain class of fool still feels the need to bad-mouth me on social media. Apparently, on one of the various Boer War...
Daniel Hannan has written another excellent article in today’s Sunday Telegraph, which I share below: Capitalism not slavery made Britain rich. It’s time we stopped apologising for our past News that the King wants to open royal archives to...
Over the last few years, there has been a steady trickle of books and articles which have started to challenge the lingering National Party myths / self-serving version of the Boer War, and I am sure that even the most fanatical Defenders of the...
On 3 April, 1900, General Cronjé of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek / Transvaal, and around 1000 other Boer POWs departed Cape Town, bound for captivity on St Helena. After his unsuccessful attempt to take Kimberley, and having been completely...
I was recently made aware of a typically self-pitying and ill-researched article which appeared in an Afrikaans newspaper way back in 1999. Written by the spectacularly ignorant (and now departed) Leopold Scholtz – a typically blinkered Defender...
I was recently made aware of a self-pitying piece of drivel posted on one of the more low-brow Boer War Facebook sites. These places seem to be overwhelmingly inhabited by the lunatic fringe of the AWB: sad, lonely old men who love to swap...
When it comes to reading about the Boer War, a useful rule-of-thumb is that any article which quotes Fransjohan Pretorius as an authoritative reference will be devoid of any semblance of historical reality. This was reconfirmed to me recently...
The god-awful Guardian newspaper is at the forefront of the current ‘woke’ and self-loathing obsession with running down every aspect of British history. It was therefore rather entertaining to read this article by Zoe Strimpel in the...
It has been obvious to me for a long time that the attitudes of some towards the British Empire in general, and the Boer War in particular, have nothing to do with historical reality – ie. what actually happened – and everything to do...
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