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Ian Harrison

  • The Book of Firsts - The stories behind the outstanding breakthroughs of the modern world

From our Archive

  • Clive Chipkin - ‘No coherence!’
  • Celebrating Mandela through the lens of graphic heritage
  • Old clock returns home (in 1978) after 80 years
  • The Henry Charles Hull Story: Law, Politics and Mining in Early Johannesburg
  • Celebrating the remarkable life of Herbert Prins
  • Benguela - More than just a current
  • George Rex - Remarkable but not Royal
  • Looking back at the Woolff Restoration of the Donkin Row Houses
  • Millbank - The Closest Historic Mill to Johannesburg
  • Da Gama Park - A little known park with some of the best views of Johannesburg
  • The Epic March of 7 000 Zulu Workers
  • The Most Important Polish-Founded Monument in South Africa
  • The Origins of William Nicol Drive
  • Anna H Smith - City Librarian, Johannesburg Public Library 1960-1975
  • A Short History of one of the oldest houses in South Africa

From the Directory

  • ARCON Conservation Architects & Spatial Heritage Consultants
  • Francois Johannes Cleophas - Sport Historian
  • Hout Bay and Llandudno Heritage Trust
  • Soweto History and Archives Project
  • Sticky Situations
  • Memorist
  • ICOM-SA
  • Lennie Gouws - Researcher and Author
  • Peter Glendinning
  • Ship Society
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