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Medical History

  • Review of Yeomen of the Karoo - The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein
  • Review of 'Plague, Pox and Pandemics'
  • Review of 'An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd'
  • Homeless Wanderers - Movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century
  • This biography honours and celebrates a pioneering South African woman doctor of the 20th century

From our Archive

  • Before there were roads - The journey from Port Elizabeth to Kuruman
  • Solving the riddle of the site of all the late 1938 to early 1940s burials in the Brixton Cemetery
  • Who was the Roger behind the Jolly Roger?
  • The General Hendrik Schoeman Enigma - Visionary, Villain or Victim?
  • A Short History of the Robben Island Garrison Church
  • Was there life before Metrication?
  • Destination Hillbrow - celebrating walking, living and heritage
  • One of Sandton's oldest structures set to serve the local community
  • Looking back at the restoration of the Barbican Building
  • Radar at Wits: South Africa’s development of radar within three months in World War II
  • South Africa's Famous Ox-Tamer
  • A nation in 66 places: the national heritage sites of South Africa
  • Edward Jenner: The Man Who Saved More Lives Than Any Person in History
  • Bridge of Wars - The Story of the Bailey Bridge
  • 150 Year Old Settler Church Restored!

From the Directory

  • Prof Walter Peters - Architect & Heritage Practitioner
  • The Conservation Studio - Albany Museum
  • Docomomo South Africa
  • Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
  • Keitumetse Mangate Production Company
  • PGS Heritage
  • RE: DIGITAL
  • Historical Society of Port Elizabeth
  • Heritage Monitoring Project (HMP)
  • Magaliesberg Association for Cultural Heritage (MACH)
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