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Historical Maps

  • Shipwrecks and Survivors: Epic Tales Hidden in a Rare 18th-Century Map of Southern Africa
  • The traveller in the map
  • Spies, spices, scurvy, and a small map of Madagascar
  • A Secret Sea Chart Revealed
  • He changed the shape of the Cape coast
  • Confessions of a Collector of Heritage Maps
  • The first printed map of South Africa - The Martin Waldseemüller map
  • Africana map collection resurfaces after half a century
  • An Unusual 1954 Railway Map of South Africa
  • When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?

From our Archive

  • Restoring Kitchen Car 269: the Curious Tale of the Designer
  • Photographs of Johannesburg in the late 1950s and early 1960s
  • Pogonology: South African men and their facial hair - As portrayed in photographs from the Victorian era
  • The railway line between Wolwehoek and Heilbron
  • The History of Westcliff
  • South Africa's Road to Nowhere
  • Joburg's Long Decade
  • Smoke and Mirrors - The Martini-Henry Rifle at Isandlwana
  • Heritage in South Africa Since 1994: Civil Society at the Frontline
  • Some thoughts on Keiskammahoek
  • Wits University Gold Medal awarded to Herbert Prins
  • Hermanus and HRH Princess Alice
  • Old Town House Greenmarket Square
  • South Africa's newest African heritage and music museum
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa

From the Directory

  • Swellendam Heritage Association (SHA)
  • Free State Heritage Resources Authority (FSHRA)
  • Glassworks
  • Emmarentia Residents Association (ERA)
  • Hermanus History Society
  • Heritage Chronicle SA
  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Henry Paine Architects
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Southern African Historical Society (SAHS)
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