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United Kingdom

  • Ten Sites Every Roman Britain Enthusiast Should Visit
  • X Doesn’t Always Mark the Spot: Rediscovering Withington’s Lost Villa
  • Dean Goods: The Little Engine That Went To War
  • The South African Footprint in Parliament Square, London
  • Fortnum & Mason - A Staircase Reimagined
  • Looking Out Over the Highest Yew Hedge in the World
  • Edward Jenner: The Man Who Saved More Lives Than Any Person in History
  • The Contemporary Accounts of the Victorian Railways of Britain
  • Marylebone - The Station that Refused to Die
  • Oxford to Cambridge: The Revival of Britain's Varsity Line
  • Exploring Cirencester's Roman Amphitheatre
  • The Scottish Horse Memorial: Honouring the Fallen in Edinburgh and Johannesburg
  • The rise of railway preservation in Britain
  • Why build a majestic villa here?
  • Chunnel Vision - A long held dream
  • The Tay Bridge Disaster
  • What was the Crystal Palace?

From our Archive

  • Cape Colony Convict Stations and Road Construction Crews
  • Ten Majestic Joburg Staircases
  • The Weeping Cross from Delville Wood
  • The History of Witkoppen School
  • Mystery of Braamfontein's arched grave solved!
  • Historic photographs of Apartheid Johannesburg in the 1980s
  • Kalk Bay Historical Association at 30 Years
  • Pilgrim's Rust - Tracing the Tramway
  • Flo Bird's Speech at the Opening of the Newly Rebuilt Rand Steam Laundries - 25 April 2019
  • Killarney is stylish living
  • An Architectural Treasure of the NZASM: The Story of Krugersdorp Railway Station
  • Three Remarkable Women: A Cape Town Family's Journey from VOC Origins to Australian Gold Rush
  • Durban architectural gem under threat
  • The history and restoration of Harare's oldest house
  • Remembering the 'Eiffel Tower of the Rand'

From the Directory

  • Africa Media Online
  • Liana Jansen - Landscape Architect & Professional Heritage Practitioner
  • South African Anglo Boer War Historical Society
  • St Ursula's Museum, Art Gallery & Research Centre
  • Shortalogy
  • Cape Town Family History Society
  • Pinelands History
  • Jeremy Hollmann: rock art
  • Strandlopers
  • Mira Fassler Kamstra - Retired
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