Kirsten Battlefield Tours

23/12/2020

May it be a blessed and peaceful Christmas to all of you. Stay safe and healthy 🎅🕊

09/04/2019

On this day in 1860 was born. Defying the constraints of her gender and class she travelled across continents and spoke out against oppression. A passionate pacifist and a feminist, she opposed both the and , which led to accusations of treason. Despite saving thousands of lives in two wars, she was an unsung hero in her her own country. Today, we remember her. Happy birthday Emily.

08/03/2019

"I simply cannot do without you," was Theunis Steyn's constant message to his beloved Tibbie over a lifetime together. Although their love story had its share of difficulties, Theunis and Tibbie Steyn's relationship, in the words of their friend Dr Hendrik Muller, was indeed "an unmixed blessing", a...

02/03/2019

https://www.litnet.co.za/a-letter-from-emily-hobhouse-to-mr-rees-mogg/

"I implore you to change and listen to your conscience, as a fellow English patriot. To be brave. To admit the truth about this atrocity. For the sake of history."

19/02/2019

https://m.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/concentration-camps-in-the-south-african-war-here-are-the-real-facts-20190219

More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in what’s known as the South African War between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the headlines.

20/01/2019

20/01/2019

It is often forgotten that the Anglo-Boer War was one of the great liberal and left-wing causes of the late 19th century. The first leader of the Labour Party, Keir Hardie, saw the Afrikaners as stout peasant farmers, standing up to the might of British imperialism. Across the world, funds were...

04/01/2019