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Pictorial History

  • This book celebrates the hidden treasures of the Karoo
  • Inside Kimberley - Paul Duncan and Alain Proust have done it again!
  • Review of Hidden Cape Town - The book is a visual feast
  • Review of Hidden Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg: Images and Continuities - A History of Working Class Life through Pictures 1885 -1935
  • A Johannesburg Album Historical Postcards by Oscar I Norwich
  • Battle of the Books - Treasures of the Africana Museum versus Pictorial History of Johannesburg
  • Early Johannesburg versus Magnates and Mansions
  • A Look at Two Books by Hannes Meiring

From our Archive

  • Ken Boffard - wrestling the Grim Reaper
  • When a Provincial Heritage Site is so desecrated one must question how they should be protected
  • Response by the Egoli Heritage Foundation to Urban Joburg's blog on Painting the Town Pink
  • The man behind one of South Africa's largest private photographic collections - Q&A with Carol Hardijzer
  • Helpmekaar and the Making of an Urban Afrikaner World
  • Victorian-era Brothel Tokens of South Africa
  • Modernist Icon Shimmers above Joburg once more
  • The Kimberley Memorial to the Honoured Dead - Cecil Rhodes, Herbert Baker, and the Architecture of Memory
  • The fate of one Dutch noble line in the Cape Colony 
  • It’s a match! Early Tweddill photograph and portrait painting matched
  • Travelling to South Africa via the Union Castle Line
  • Why Do Municipalities Not Uphold Their By-Laws - A Case Study from Greater Oudtshoorn
  • Charles Davidson Bell - Renaissance Man at the Cape
  • Carl von Brandis - The Father of Johannesburg
  • Is the Claim of 'Oldest School in South Africa' Legitimate?

From the Directory

  • Joint Plans Committee West
  • Brian McKechnie - Architect & Heritage Consultant
  • Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
  • Franco Frescura Heritage Consultants
  • Village Timber
  • Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA)
  • Western Cape Numismatic Society
  • Roodt Architects
  • Cape Dutch Quarters
  • Bronzing Brilliance
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