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Episode 205 - A Crimean/Russian Struggle Thread, Two Disabled Free Staters and a Surveyor Surge
Episode 205 of the series covers the A Russian Struggle Thread, Two Disabled Men in the Free State and a Surge in Surveyors.
Sprinkled with tales o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 204 - Planet Earth 1855, the Regal Cetshwayo kaMpande and Natal Land Realities
Episode 204 - A quick whip around the globe in 1855 and Cetshwayo kaMpande makes his Regal Entrance.
First up, a quick thank you to Adi Badenhorst …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 203 - The Siege of Makapansgat and Misnomerclature
We’re picking up speed from here on, the fulcrum that was the mid-19th Century is passed and our story is developing quickly - this is episode 203 th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 202 - America’s Constitutional link to Boer Republics and a Cave Looms large
This is episode 202, the sounds you hear are the sounds made by wagons rolling across the veld — because we’re going to join the trekkers who’ve most…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 201 - Labour, Lovedale and Roads are all the Rage in 1854
This is episode 201. The sounds you’re hearing are those of roadworks, because South Africa is upgrading.
Quickly.
The arrival of governor sir Ge…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 200 - Sir George Grey’s Racial Amalgamation Thesis, its Maori Roots and Opiate Dependency
This is episode 200 - we have reached the double century milestone on our winding journey through the past.
When I began the series in 2021 after so…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 199 - Cognitive Dissonance, Desiccated Hags, a Trail of Tears and Ssehura Baartman
Episode 199, cognitive dissonance, desiccated hags, a Trail of Tears and Ssehura Baartman — Almost two hundred episodes exploring a land rich with so…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 198 - 1853: The Crimean War, Historical Doppler Effects and Quitrent in Keiskamma Hoek
This is episode 198 — and good news!
Apple has listed this podcast as one of South Africas five shows they liked in 2024 — and we are also the third…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 197 - The Show Trial of Andries Botha and the Forgotten Significance of the 8th Frontier War
This is episode 197. Which is a prime number and therefore symbolic too because this episode we’re dealing with a unique event in Southern African hi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 196 - An Irishman-penned Cape Qualified Franchise Constitution and Boots Cathcart on the Ground
This is episode 196 and we’re covering the movement towards sef-government and the first Cape Constitution which included what’s known as a qualified…
1 year, 5 months ago