From 1899 to 1902 a war between Farmers, commonly known as Boers, and soldiers of the British Empire waged over South Africa. The British (also known as the Kaki’s) fought unsuccessfully against the ...

“I have faith in my star,” a young Winston Churchill wrote to his mother in 1897, “that I am intended to do something in the world.” He had only just arrived in India as part of the British effort to ...

The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and… Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902 The Boer war involved ...

Kevin Raftery had concerns that the historic plaque would decay with the building A commemorative plaque to Staffordshire soldiers who fought in the Boer Wars has been saved from Hanley Town Hall. The ...

Winston Churchill is one of those giant historical figures who seem to have sprung to life fully formed — in his case with a jowly, bulldog countenance, ample girth and a cigar clenched in his teeth.

Object of the Week is a Boer War memorial statue at St Cuthbert’s Church, unveiled in 1905 by Field Marshal Lord Roberts.

“Three days after the attack on the armored train, Churchill arrived in Pretoria, the Boer capital, with the other British prisoners of war. Surrounded by curious Boers eager to see the new prisoners, ...

Recently, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the migrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border concentration camps. Her comments triggered a whole debate about when and how that term ...

MAGERSFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters Life) - Springboks bound amongst the thorn bushes of Magersfontein during a sun-filled South African day. But local people say that the night belongs to the ghosts ...