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Social History

  • A novel about the 'Last Days of Old Parktown'
  • Review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
  • Diepsloot cannot be ignored if you are a student of Johannesburg
  • Hidden Histories of Gordonia, Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
  • Fighting their own War - South African Blacks and the First World War
  • Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - A History of Working Class Life through Pictures 1885 -1935
  • Review of Tea at Ansteys
  • Insider and Outsider views of Fietas/Pageview
  • Parktown 1992 vs Parktown 2012

From our Archive

  • Exploring Cirencester's Roman Amphitheatre
  • Scott Brebnor House Midrand - A remarkable reunion between architect and client
  • The Eastern Star Museum in Grahamstown: a case study in conservation
  • Early Standerton through the eyes of a deltiologist
  • Pageview hero stood his ground for 20 years
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
  • Old clock returns home (in 1978) after 80 years
  • Early 20th Century Asylum photography in South Africa
  • A priceless Joburg archive - Q&A with Lucille Davie
  • Herbert Baker honoured in Muizenberg
  • Civic Spine 1989-1991 - The voice of the architects
  • Looking back at the Roeland Street Prison
  • A mysterious grave next to a railway line
  • A Brief History of Parkview
  • Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood 

From the Directory

  • Collectors Treasury
  • Amathole Museum
  • Kenton-on-Sea Ratepayers Association (KOSRA)
  • David Manning Stained Glass
  • Historical Time Lines
  • South Africans in WW1, WW2 and Korean War
  • Talana Museum
  • Digital Rail Images of South Africa (DRISA)
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Benoni - History Now & Then
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  • Volksrust (Llanwarne/Langwane) - A Transvaal Border Town Through the Eyes of a Deltiologist
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