Then there are the real, structured horrors: British concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War—terrible indeed—but rarely is it told that there were also separate, even harsher camps for Black ...

How it started After the 1857 revolt, the British reorganised local militia into volunteer forces, which saw action in overseas conflicts like the Second Boer War and World War I.

The Boer War, although the Brits won it, sounded the death knell for the British Empire. The Boers won the peace, and after 1910 took over the whole country. They did develop Afrikaans culture and ...

The British & Irish Lions and Rugby Australia are pleased to announce a Player of the Match medal will be named in honour of former player Blair Swannell. Swannell is one of just two players to play ...

Ronnie Scott, beloved World War II veteran, dies aged 107 An inspiration to much of the local community, Ronald David Scott – who volunteered from Argentina to join the Allies’ war effort in 1942 – ...

A new British war film out in cinemas on Friday is the best since Dunkirk.

But the Boers refused to engage in textbook battles, choosing to fight a guerilla war that left the British struggling to deal with the hit-and-run tactics of the locals in 1901.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

After the Second Boer War, the British transported as many as 9,000 prisoners to India, housing them in camps that often did not even have enough water.