![Right Kitchener [on the left] and Roberts [right] had a proven record of success in colonial warfare, but the two had not campaigned together before arriving in South Africa.](https://i0.wp.com/the-past.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/post-1_image0-18-e1677858429147.jpg?fit=768%2C873&ssl=1)
Imperial firefighters: Roberts, Kitchener, and the Anglo-Boer War
Graham Goodlad reveals how two late-Victorian commanders forged a winning partnership in South Africa – but left controversy in their wake.
Boer War
Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses: a military engineer’s perspective
The final phase of the South African War of 1899-1902, in which Boer guerrillas were eventually overcome by British forces, has been extensively studied by historians. The concentration camps, in which an estimated 27,000 civilians died as part of a…
Smuts: guerrilla, politician, warlord
Stephen Roberts reports on the extraordinary career of Jan Smuts, who went from Boer commander to Commonwealth statesman.
War Athletes – Wyndham Halswelle
The life of Wyndham Halswelle - Olympic athlete and soldier in the Second Boer War and Second World War.