Britain

The boys who gave their all for our freedom

30/03/2025 — 0 Comments

Africa, Britain, Cape Town South Africa, South Africa

Snoek! “Vars Snoek!”

17/09/2021 — 3 Comments

Britain

Is the Covid problem that we’ve had it too easy for too long? The grazed knee syndrome

01/01/2021 — 1 Comment

Britain, Colonialism, History

Churchill and the Bengal famine

25/07/2020 — 0 Comments

Ethiopia

Haile Selassie’s last-ditch attempt to halt Mussolini: the Standard Oil lease

31/05/2013 — 1 Comment

Horn of Africa

The death of one of Eritrea’s last Askari

29/12/2012 — 0 Comments

Occassional stories

How unique recordings of African troops in World War II were preserved

10/11/2012 — 1 Comment