New to Routledge for 2018, the Journal of Natal and Zulu History examines political, social, economic and cultural change in a region currently called KwaZulu-Natal, along the south-eastern coastal region of Africa, from pre-colonial times to the present.

Help us celebrate our launch of this complex and critical journal by exploring the first Routledge-published issue — completely FREE until 31 January 2019. Click here to start reading now , or preview the contents below.

Free-access articles include...

• Race, Class, Gender, and African Women as Perpetrators of Murder in Natal, 1900–1929 by Nikki Kalbing
• An In(ter)vention of Tradition: Medical Male Circumcision in KwaZulu-Natal, 2009–2016 by Liz Timbs 
• The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop