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Archives in Oxford Relating to the South African War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

John Pinfold
John Pinfold*
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Rhodes House Library
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It seems appropriate for there to be a paper at this conference on archives in Oxford relating to the Anglo-Boer War, for it was, at least in part, an imperialist war, and, as Richard Symonds has so ably chronicled in his book Oxford and Empire, the links between the two were very strong. Not so strong that there was much inclination amongst Oxonians for military service, however. Symonds draws attention to an article in the 23 May 1900 issue of the Oxford Magazine which whilst lamenting that Cambridge was providing more volunteers than Oxford took consolation in the fact that Cambridge also had more men fighting on the other side, including Generals Reitz, De Wet, Smuts and Villiers.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 79 , 1999 , pp. 3 - 23
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Copyright © African Research & Documentation 1999

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This paper was originally presented at a conference entitled ‘Rethinking the South African War’, held at UNISA, Pretoria, 3-5 August 1998

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Postscript

Many of the papers described in this article will be included in a major exhibition devoted to the Anglo-Boer War, to be held in the Bodleian Library in the first part of 2000. More details will be provided in African Research and Documentation in due course.

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