I have learned over the years that, in the fevered, fanatical, Brandy-addled mind of a typical True Believer™, the timeline of the Boer War is essentially this: Discovery of gold in the Transvaal (bizarrely, they will often say ‘diamonds’ here...
Though the garrison at Aldershot today is a shadow of its former self, there are still links to the Boer War, and specifically the Siege of Ladysmith, to be found in and around the town. Aldershot had been a sleepy village of some 600 souls until...
I was recently made aware of a particularly passionate Defender of the Myth™ who has plenty to say about me: It’s fine to challenge the one-sidedness of Afrikaner nationalist history about the AB War causes, which fail to take into account...
The first book I have read in 2022 is the relatively controversial ‘The Phoney Victory’, by Peter Hitchens. Just like his late-brother, Hitchens is an admirable rattler of cages, and sets out to shatter many of the enduring myths of...
There was a typically excellent article by Robert Tombs in the Telegraph recently: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/31/like-1914-1939-may-sleepwalking-towards-global-war-nothing-can/ There are some interesting quotes from his article...
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