There is a certain type of person[i] who, desperate to justify the republican invasions of British territory which started the Boer War, will claim that this was only done because ‘the British were massing on the borders’. Not only is this...
Was saddened to read of the passing of Jan Morris: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/11/20/jan-morris-travel-writer-historian-author-landmark-memoir-conundrum/ Very complex and talented historian who wrote one of the most interesting...
South African history is often viewed through the prism of South African exceptionalism, with little or no understanding of how events fitted into the world at large. Thus, the Boer War is (farcically) portrayed as a dastardly British attempt to...
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