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World War II

  • Winston’s War – The Valiant Years
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Gordons Bay Coastal Defence Battery 1943
  • The Mystery of the Missing Major General
  • Portrait of a Springbok - Lest we forget
  • The man who never spoke about the war
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • Iconic painting reveals close relationship between Churchill and Smuts
  • Cullinan - The War Years
  • Red Beret, Red Cross, Red Star - The remarkable story of Lippy Kessel

From our Archive

  • Photographs of Johannesburg circa 1892
  • Unacclaimed South African Railway Photographers (1894 -1940)
  • The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg
  • Remembering Oscar and Rose Norwich: Collectors, Scholars and Custodians of Johannesburg’s Past
  • You say football I say soccer
  • British 'heroes' commemorated in Kensington street names
  • Barberton Scandal is Here!
  • A Short History of the Battle of Diamond Hill
  • Gandhi on trial in South Africa, again
  • The only known 'Herbert Baker' house in Kensington
  • Travelling along our National Roads
  • The Legacy of Dr Arthur David Bensusan
  • Six Photographs - 103 Prisoners of War: Some Anglo-Boer War Prisoners of War photographed
  • The Origins of the Chavonnes Battery
  • Hugh Lane's Vision for the Johannesburg Art Gallery

From the Directory

  • Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town
  • Dr Graham Dominy
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
  • Graeme Addison
  • Lower Albany Historical Society (LAHS)
  • Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA)
  • Simon's Town Historical Society
  • Stellenbosch Interest Group
  • Edwin Conroy - Genalogist
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