Victoria West

From our Archive

Smoke and Mirrors - The Martini-Henry Rifle at Isandlwana
Johannesburg in a lithograph circa 1937 - In search of Charles Ernest Peers (Part 1)
Scandal brewing in Barberton
The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections - Q&A with Carol Hardijzer
The Indian War Memorial: National Memory and Selective Forgetting
Hunter and hunted photographed - Early South African hunting photographs (1860s to 1910)
An ode to Bra Fighter - A South African music connoisseur
The Gold Rushes of the Victorian Era
Ladies Mile, the result of a bitter fight
When did Johannesburg first appear on a map?
Another Blood Soaked Hill in Zululand - Gunner Frederick Henry Bradley V.C.
The contested but pivotal legacy of missionary education in South Africa
History of the Rissik Street Post Office Clock
Discovery of a cannonball that was fired during the Battle of Muizenberg (1795)
One of the most extraordinary archaeological and historical phenomena in Southern Africa

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