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Who Was The Real Otto Witt?
Jack Hawkins and Ulla Jacobssen as Otto and Margaretta Witt in Zulu.
Jan 7
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Is this the Grave of Surgeon Peter Shepherd? Pondering a mystery of the ‘fugitives’ trail’
Is this the grave of Surgeon Peter Shepherd at iSandlwana?
Jan 5
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'WHAT DO YOU COME HERE FOR?' The defiance of ordinary Zulus during the war of 1879.
A Zulu matron at iSandlwana in the 1960s; is she remembering a father or grandfather who fought there?
Oct 9, 2025
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The Walk to 'The Bewhiskered Man'
‘In the days of Cetshwayo’
Sep 24, 2025
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NEARLY A VC; An Incident in the Siege of Eshowe
The mission station at Eshowe as fortified by Pearson’s men; the largest British fortification built during the Anglo-Zulu War.
Sep 19, 2025
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JOHN LABAND; AN OBITUARY
John and his wife Fen in London in April 2025.
Aug 14, 2025
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'SKIRMISHING ON THE INHLOBANE'; The Background to an Original Watercolour of the Anglo-Zulu War
A few years ago I came across a watercolour of an nineteenth-century battlescene.
Jul 29, 2025
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Anglo-Zulu War Art at the National Army Museum!
With Lady Butler at the new National Army Museum exhibition ‘Myth and Reality; Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria’.
Jul 25, 2025
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