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Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:35 am
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This would be great news IF the publisher got copies into the bookshops.

I have visited all the bookshops in this part of the country and have yet to find a copy ?

No idea what the hold up is -- ...

Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:10 am
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Here is the official notification of the launch of Jeff Guy's new book

http://www.ukzn.ac.za/Event?I'd=865

View / Download the jpeg image ( Invitation )

Hope to be there.

Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:45 pm
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Scott came into camp to report during the first alarm. Who knows where he was sent back to. The obvious inference from the words you cite is that he had been face to face with Pulleine at some point ...

Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:59 pm
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No problem
Just the excitement running away with me
Will send you the material under separate cover.
You may then have the pleasure of sifting the wheat from the chaff.
and
Deciding what to put i ...

Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:51 pm
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Peter , Ron -- has anyone had a look at the Newmarch file at KC ?
Yes we have looked at NATAL newspapers -- what about others ?

I have been sent some VERY interesting information

Just waiting f ...

Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:30 pm
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This weekend I was chatting to a registered land surveyor who is President of SAGI ( South African Geomatics Institute )

http://www.sagi.co.za

His family hails from Greytown and he was telling ...

Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:24 pm
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There are other versions of these maps, which I have not seen, in the archives of the Charles Close Society at the Library of the University of Cambridge, possibly identifying for us which map was ' ...

Fri Sep 06, 2013 5:19 am
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Stephen Coan helpfully tipped me off about this forthcoming work back in March/April. I've been looking forward to it avidly. Guy was originally of the "Shula Marks school" and I think o ...

Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:50 pm
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Apologies for thread hi-jack and interruption
I have posted something in the Chit-Chat section ( because you need to be a member and logged in to see it ! )
Could change everything Sad

Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:47 pm
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Hi Chris,
I think you might have in mind an illustration by Adam Hook. It is much as you describe and appears in Ian Knight's 'Isandlwana 1879' for Osprey's Campaign Series.
You should be able to ...

Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:19 am
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Mel,
850 yards is the approximate distance that the Basutos fired on the uMcityu,
not vice verse.
Peter

Morning Peter ,

I can remember seeing some sort of a print illustrating Raw ? ( some ...

Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:17 am
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Chris,
Many thanks for the heads up. Can not find on the 'Net. Do you have a release date?
AMB

Has been released already by UKZN Press
Have a look on their website

Not sure about other plac ...

Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:59 am
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New book by Jeff Guy printed by UKZN Press

Seeing as Shepstone ( and family ) , Colenso (and family) were so central to the wider events of the AZW this book makes interesting reading ( although ...

Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:43 am
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Chris
On the other hand, if drawing attention to their very existence and exact location were to herald a new chapter of desecration and robbery, perhaps we should content ourselves with Mitford's ...

Fri Aug 23, 2013 9:11 am
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"Three quarters of a mile from the camp"? Presumably about three quarters of a mile from the front line or outer defences. Down the slope, as in Mitford's quote, but it would be helpful ...
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