Alfred Aylward: Fenian Editor of the Natal Witness

Book Reviews

Botany and empire

scholarly article by Donal McCracken published in January 2016

Broadcasting to the ‘last outpost of the British Empire’: Anthony Lejeune, the man behind the SABC's English ServiceLondon Letter(1965–1995)

Communication in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southern Africa

article

Curating Difficult Knowledge

article published in 2013

Darkroom: Photography and New Media

Defiant Images

Durban Botanic Gardens, Natal: 1851-1913

Editorial

Equivocators or zealots? Post-revolutionary re-imaging colonial languages, names and name change in Ireland and South Africa

article

From Paris to Paris via Pretoria : Arthur Lynch at War

Gardens of Empire: Botanical Institutions of the Victorian British Empire

Irish settlement and identity in South Africa before 1910

article

John Ardagh (1840-1907): The Irish Intelligence scapegoat for Britain’s Anglo-Boer War debacles

Leslie McCracken and Charles Bethune Horsbrugh: collecting birds’ eggs in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and early 1930s ⬇️

People Apart

Photography in Africa

article

Qudeni: The Early Commercial Exploitation of an Indigenous Zululand Forest

Robert Plant (1818–1858): A Victorian plant hunter in Natal, Zululand, Mauritius and the Seychelles

article

The Irish Literary Movement, Irish Doggerel and the Boer War

The Management of a Mid-Victorian Irish Iron-Ore Mine: Glenravel, County Antrim, 1866–1887

article published in 1984

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney: A History 1816-1985

The imperial British newspaper, with special reference to South Africa, India and the ‘Irish model’

article

The monkey and the organ-grinder: a timeless relationship between book authors and their publishers

Transforming Museums

article published in 2012

Wild Colonial Boys

article published in 2012

“Fenians and Dutch Carpetbaggers”: Irish and Afrikaner Nationalisms, 1877–1930