My meanderings and adventures in Zulu history over fifty years of writing and researching
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THAT AMMUNITION BOX ...
A Mark VI ammunition box, of the type used at iSandlwana. Notice that the sliding central panel has been pushed out, and the opening in the tin lining pulled back. The rounds were wrapped in paper packets of ten.
The influence of British a...
‘Arguments … Prolonged and at Times Rather Hot’; The many battles of iSandlwana
In 1914 the novelist, H. Rider Haggard, was about to visit Zululand for the first time. He was to be shown round the historic sites by two of the great Colonial experts on Zulu history, James Stuart and James Gibson[1]. After dining with th...
THE JEW WHO WOULD BE KING The Extraordinary Adventures and Fast Times of Nathanial Isaacs
Ten years ago, I stumbled across some biographical details of Nathanial Isaacs – one of the first European hunters and traders to visit the court of King Shaka, who subsequently wrote up his adventures as Travels And Adventures in Eastern A...
'No! It Is Not Yet Over!' The battle of Holkrans, 6 May 1902
Raffaele Ruggeri’s impression of the final stage of the battle of Holkrans, from my book ‘Boer Commando; 1876-1902’, Osprey publishing.
Raffaele Ruggeri’s impression of the final stage of the battle of Holkrans, from my book ‘Boer Commando...
'The Sun Turned Black'; The eclipse at iSandlwana
According to a warrior of the uNokhenke ibutho, at the height of the battle of iSandlwana
The sun turned black in the middle of the battle; we could still see it over us, or we should have thought we had been fighting til evening. Then w...
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I'm a historian and author specialising in the history of the 19th century Zulu kingdom, including the Anglo-Zulu War. I've currently written or co-written 46 books, including 'Zulu Rising', mostly about Zulu history.
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