The Aba Women's War The “Women’s War” is seen as the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period, and took…
Aba Women’s War of 1929 Short history by Lorna Lueker Zukas of the Aba Women's War of 1929-1930 against social, political and economic grievances with British colonial…
The colonial development of concentration camps The practice of concentrating civilians in guarded camps or centres, specifically as part of a counter-guerrilla military strategy during wartime…
Black concentration camps during the second Anglo-Boer war 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 three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…
Role of Black people in the South African War A short article from South African History Online about the role of black soldiers and workers in the second Boer war.
19 June 1901: The South African concentration camps Emily Hobhouse reports from inside the internment centres where Boer women and children face squalor and starvation (1901).
POW camps in Ceylon during the Boer war Over 5,000 Boers were interned in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the Boer War. The Ceylon camps were the second set of overseas POW camps after those…
POW camps in Bermuda during the Boer War Contemporary newspaper article detailing the POW camps set up by the British for Boer prisoners during the Anglo-Boer war.
Boer POW camps in India Short article on the Boer prisoner of war camps set up in India during the Boer War.
POW camps at St. Helena during the Boer war During the Boer war, Boer women and children, and black African men, women and children were kept in two racially segregated networks of…
Rent strike: St Pancras 1960 A detailed history and analysis of the militant St Pancras rent strike of 1960 against council rent increases written in 1972.