Dear Readers,

As many of you are aware, The Anglo Zulu War Historical Society has been thriving for some 20 years and has established a worthy reputation for both its journals and high quality academic research. The Society library of some 300 journal articles is regularly used by researchers, authors, students and academics world wide. Indeed, the Society website has been selected by the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford University as being of ‘lasting research value and worthy of permanent preservation’ in their Web Archive.

In recent years …

The Boers… have all the cunning and cruelty of the Kaffir without his honesty or courage… they could not stand up against our troops for an hour.(1)

By the end of 1879 British policy for Zululand, and to a lesser extent, theTransvaal, became aimless. The reason for this lack of purpose was clear. Circumstances had changed since the first invasion in January. Mainly due to on-going adverse press reporting at home, Disraeli’s government was on the verge of collapse as a direct consequence of the …

Before the fifteenth century little was know of Southern Africa. Following Diaz’s discovery of the Cape in 1486, southern Africa remained of little interest to the Europeans. It appeared to have nothing to offer beyond its geographical location. In the name of King John of Portugal, Diaz and his men erected a marble cross at the site of their landfall, today known as Angra Pequena. That cross lay neglected for hundreds of years but today it stands in the Lisbon Maritime Museum, a treasured memory …