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South Africa General

  • The Definitive Biography of H. Rider Haggard
  • Review: Halcyon Days: Passenger Liners in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Review: A Brief Look into the History of South African Cycling, and Other Interesting Facts
  • A Review of John Stewart’s Sir Herbert Baker
  • Review of 'Telling stories of pain and hope: Museums in South Africa and Ireland'
  • Review of Yeomen of the Karoo - The Story of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein
  • RSA 365 - This book makes a contribution to the documentation of South African buildings across the centuries
  • Die NG Kerk - This books fills a gap on church architecture
  • Common Ground - A brilliant and welcome addition to architectural literature
  • Fast forward to a new style of Mrs Beeton
  • Review of Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins
  • Review of 'Plague, Pox and Pandemics'
  • This book reveals an archaeological treasure house in Southern Africa
  • This academic study breaks new ground in probing ways to look at photographs
  • This book passes Andrew Mlangeni’s personal story to his descendants and a wider readership
  • The Silver Tea Service - A memoir dipped in mystery
  • Review of 'Troubling Images - Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism'
  • Review of 20 South African Schools: A Pictorial History
  • Children of Hope - This is the book that I would nominate for the non-fiction prize of the year
  • Review of A Newspaper History of South Africa

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From our Archive

  • A new perspective on Johannesburg trams
  • Durban's Lost Toll House
  • Remembering the days when my family owned the Three Castles Building
  • Mathew Woodifield - The Busy Engineer who Disappeared
  • Thomas Stewart - First South African Consulting Engineer
  • Roaming the Western Cape Rails
  • When Johannesburg became a City!
  • Remembering Oscar and Rose Norwich: Collectors, Scholars and Custodians of Johannesburg’s Past
  • Pretoria on Parade - A Mystery Photo Album Emerges
  • The Ancestors of the Tswana - Farmers Building Stone-Walled Villages
  • Restoring one of Kimberley's grandest homes in 1976
  • Report from the 2012 Heritage SA Symposium
  • The rescue restoration of the historic town centre of Wupperthal
  • The passing of Malcolm Freeland marked the end of an era of old Johannesburg
  • Finding the earliest known photographs of Prince Albert in a Johannesburg Charity Shop

From the Directory

  • Border Historical Society
  • Parkview Residents Association (PRA)
  • City of Johannesburg Directorate Arts Culture and Heritage
  • Port Alfred Ratepayers Association (PARRA)
  • Muizenberg - Then and Now
  • Johannesburg Heritage Foundation (JHF)
  • PHS Consulting
  • Constantia Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association
  • Friends of the Knysna Libraries
  • Parktown North Residents Association (PNRA)
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  • Witnessing History - Correcting my memory of Hastings Ndlovu
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  • Some Angel and Cherub Statues in Braamfontein Cemetery
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