LibGuides: Primary Sources: Wars & Conflicts: Boer Wars

Online Sources: Boer War

Boer War: three soldiers with a grand lady outside her bomb-proof shelter in Mafeking
Boer War Drama (Films on Demand)
Lady Wilson is a Prisoner: Aunt of Winston Churchill in the Boers' Clutches
Lord Roberts Presenting Medals to Boer War Volunteers in Liverpool (1901)
Pamphlets from the Harvard College Library
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"Areas currently covered in this digital collection include World War I, Sociology, the Boer War, and Brittany."
The Times History of the War in South Africa

Book Sources: Boer War

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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The Boer War 1900: Ladysmith and Mafeking, 1900 by Tim Coates (Editor)
Call Number: DT1908.L34 B64 1999

ISBN: 0117024082
The Brunt of the War and Where it Fell by Emily Hobhouse
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Diary of a Nurse in South Africa by Alice Bron
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

being a narrative of experiences in the Boer and English hospital service
Translated from the French by G. A. Raper
Failure of a Mission; Berlin 1937-1939 by Nevile Henderson
Call Number: D750.H497 F16
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G.W. Steevens
Call Number: Online - free - Project Gutenberg
The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle
Call Number: Online - HathiTrust

"First-hand account of Doyle's experiences as a doctor in the Bloemfontein hospital during the war, specifically the typhoid epidemic" https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:176437/datastream/PDF/view
Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies by Emily Hobhouse
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

aka The Hobbes Report
Report on the Concentration Camps in South Africa by The Committee of Ladies Appointed by the Secretaty of State for War
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

aka The Fawcett Report
Selected Official Documents of the South African Republic and Great Britai by Hugh Williams
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Shall I Slay My Brother Boer?: An Appeal to the Conscience of Britain by William T. Stead
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
South Africa : The Spion Kop Despatches by Great Britain
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Sarah Wilson
Call Number: Online - free - Project Gutenberg
Three Years' War by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The True History of War by Great Britain.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

being the official despatches and enclosures from the General commanding-in-chief the forces in South Africa, from Nov. 9th, 1899 to Dec. 28th, 1899.

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