I remember when I was about 10 years old, my brother gave me four books... one was The Hobbit and the others were the Lord of the Rings ...

30000+ woman and children died in British Concentration camps in South-Africa during 1899 and 1902

Several people made comments on the recent Conan Doyle post regarding the Boer War, so the conflict was on my mind. If you're not famil...

Many children died. They could not beat the boers in the war. Went for the soft spots women and children.

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In Pretoria, representatives of Great Britain and the Boer states sign the Treaty of Vereeniging, officially ending the three-and-a-half-year South African Boer War. The Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa. Britain took possession of the Dutch Cape colony in 1806 during the Napoleonic wars, sparking resistance from the independence-minded Boers, who resented the Anglicization of South Africa and Britain's anti-slavery…

Members of New Zealand's Sixth Contingent burn a Boer farm, 1901

Sitting astride his grey mount in 1899, the 26-year-old future Prime Minister is shown wearing a suit and tie and has on a wide-brimmed hat.

It was 150 years ago a woman was born in St Ive who's been compared to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale. Learn more about Emily Hobhouse.

Picture from FB: Mother with her dead child – Boer War: Concentration camps. I was so shocked when I saw this picture. How this mother must have felt and ...

As promised, this is not a happy story. Some of the photos in this post are disturbing. They break my heart. I hope I do not use them gratuitously. The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 has a strange hol…

Aanhangers van die kortfilm, Die laaste Boere van Patagonië kry op Vrydag, 13 Junie die geleentheid om ‘n vertoning daarvan tydens die Encounters Internasionale Dokumentêre Filmfees in Johannesburg by te woon. Die vertoning daarvan op 8 Junie in Kaa

Personal recollections testify that there were beatings and kicking of "Undesirables" in the camps by the British soldiers. The British burned the homesteads, killed livestock and destroyed crops. Women and children of burghers in the field were labeled "Undesirables" treated much worse than those of men who had surrendered.