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Printing History

  • Review of Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading

From our Archive

  • The Natal Volunteer Indian Ambulance Services in the Boer War - Legend and Reality
  • Forgotten fountain returns to the limelight
  • Latent South African Visual History - Magic lantern slides
  • Finding Job Maseko - It is not Masego, it is Maseko
  • Knysna Gold - How it all started
  • Why was there an explosion of towers in Johannesburg in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
  • Blue plaques and a new heritage route for Jeppe Boys
  • Fortnum & Mason - A Staircase Reimagined
  • Tintypes - The poor man’s photograph
  • Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood 
  • Magnificent Sketches of the Early Buildings of Mahikeng
  • Merther, Minerals & Migrations - Three generations of the Lavin family
  • Who was the Douglas in Douglasdale?
  • Five homes in bohemian Parktown
  • Crack Trains of South Africa - Then and Now

From the Directory

  • Gateway Stained Glass
  • Bryanston East Community Forum (BECF)
  • Joint Plans Committee West
  • Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
  • Hermanus History Society
  • South African Anglo Boer War Historical Society
  • Lareman Architects
  • Heritage Railway Association of South Africa (HRASA)
  • Quagga Rare Books & Art
  • Mahikeng Society
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