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Trauma and slavery, Gilo and the soft, subtle shackles of Lovedale

A recent study of sixty-four Oromo slave children from the Horn of Africa has provided valuable information of the children’s experiences from capture to the coast. In 1888 a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in...

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New Local Publications

Local Publications: Children of Hope / Sandra Rowoldt Shell Nottinghamshire: Settlers and Locations in the Eastern Cape of Good Hope / Rob Smith 1820 Settlers and other early British Settlers to the Cape Colony / edited by John Wilmot Coc...

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Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

A summary of the following presentation was delivered by Dave Hawkins to an audience of LAHS members at the AGM in October 2021. [From the introduction] 'Life of o Traveller' was the title of an 1873 presentation made by Baines to the Grey...

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Editorial Policy

Toposcope (ISSN 1011-1948 print version) is published annually by the Lower Albany Historical Society (LAHS) to reflect the Society's activities and the interests of its members and readership, concerning, but not limited to, the history o...

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The Roads of Bathurst

When Sir Rufane Donkin decided to establish the new town of Bathurst in May 1820, Johannes Knobel, the Government Surveyor, was instructed to create a plan. He must have started with a completely blank canvas, as there was nothing in the a...

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East Cape Signal Towers in the context of the history of long- distance communication

Sending messages and signals over long distances has been a human endeavour since earliest times. Signalling has most often involved the use of some form of technology, although at times this can be as simple as the raising of an eyebrow o...

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SAMHSEC explores the history of Fish River Valley

The local branch of the SA Military History Society (SAMHSEC) chose a beautiful summer day for their outing on Sunday, 17 November 2024. The rendezvous was Cuylerville’s St Mary’s Anglican Church, a national monument, where local resident...

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Jonkvrouw Augusta Uitenhage De Mist

Augusta (1784-1832) wrote a charming and impressive diary, which begins: ‘The peace of Amiens had made an end to a long war. England had returned the Cape of Good Hope to the Batavian Republic, and my father [Jacob de Mist 1749-1823] was h...

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Kasouga

There are a few places left on the South African coast where time feels as if it has gently folded itself into the landscape, where nature’s rhythms have remained mostly untouched by the modern rush. Kasouga is one of these rare enclaves —...

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Vukani – Harold Trollope

Stephen Harold Trollope, born on 7th July 1881, was a hunter, farmer, family man and conservationist “always ready to help his fellow man and to preserve animals; a man who led an exciting, interesting and adventurous life; a pioneer of wi...

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The Kowie Museum

The establishment of our Museum and its subsequent 41 years as “the hub of historic Port Alfred” would never have happened without the perseverance, the vision, and the hard work of teams of dedicated people over the years – our Chairmen a...

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An invitation to time travel

The earliest historical treasures of the district long remained hidden, buried deep beneath the surface of the Zuurveld and the hills to the north. Great rolling wrinkles of quartzitic rock form the Mountain Drive ridge of the Rietberg, to...

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Thomas Stubbs, 1820 Settler

A Xhosa oral tradition claims that the great warrior, Chief Maqoma, once asked why Thomas Stubbs fought against them, when he had been raised as one of their own? Even Stubbs’ biographer, Robert McGeoch, believed that he spoke the Xhosa la...

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120 Not Out!

Cricket clubs had existed at Buchner’s on the Bushman’s River, Kaba (Bedford) and the Fish River as far back as 1845’ (Tournament booklet 2024), but until Luke Alfred, sports writer, with support from Justin Stirk, produced the well-docume...

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Loss of Ford children at sea

1820 Settler Samuel Liversage of Staffordshire led a joint-stock party that ‘included a high proportion of young children’(Nash, MD, 1987, p 87). William Ford, farmer, 30, and his wife Hannah, 27, sailed on the John and lost all three of t...