Publications

Published:

• Africa versus Europe: how the two British theatres compared 1914-1918, Historia & Guerra, (2) (19 September 2022)
• Unravelling the Past: World War 1 in Africa, Journal of Asian and African Studies (14 November 2021)
• Protecting the armies human resource: Lord Kitchener and medical arrangements, SOTQ – Soldiers of the Queen (issue 181 Summer 2021)
• Natal at War, South African Military History Journal (June 2021, vol 19:2) [extended article here]
• We will remember them, Reform (July/August 2021)
• Member of the CWGC appointed Special Committee chaired by Sir Tim Hitchins which issued the Report of the Special Committee to review historical inequalities in Commemoration at CWGC (23 April 2021)
• Language in East Africa During the First World War in Multilingual Environments in the Great War edited by Julian Walker and Christophe Declercq (Bloomsbury, 22 April 2021)
• Reporting the war in British Africa in The Global First World War: African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators by Ana Paula Pires, María Inés Tato, Jan Schmidt (Routledge, 15 April 2021)
• Why Africans in British territories joined the colours, 1914-1918 in Propaganda and Public Relations in Military Recruitment: Promoting military service in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries edited by Brendan Maartens and Thomas Bivins (Routledge, 20 November 2020)
• Africa, Versailles and Religion (The Journal, United Reformed Church History Society, vol 10, no 7, November 2020)
• Lord Kitchener in London (London Historians, 15 September 2020)
• If only statues could speak: the four Boer statues Kitchener ‘stole’ (Heritage Portal, 1 July 2020)
• Kitchener: From pariah to hero (Helion blog, 29 May 2020)
• Kitchener: The man not the myth (Helion & Co) February 2020
• The opportunity of war: South Africa in World War 1: a case study in A guerra e as guerras coloniais na Africa subsaariana edited by Jose Luis Lima Garcia, Juliao Soares Sousa, Sergio Neta (Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra) 2019
• Rememorando a primeira guerra mundial na Africa: Memoria de Quem? in Tempos e espacos de violencia: a primeira guerra mundial, a desconstrucai dos limites e o inicio de uma era edited by Silvia Correia and Alexandre Moreli (Autografia: PPGHIS: Rio da Janeiro) July 2019
• Zambia: the end of the Great War in Africa, 25 November 1918 – 25 November 2018 (TSL Publications/GWAA) 2018
• There came a time: Essays on the Great War in Africa edited by Anne Samson, Ana Paula Pires and Dan Gilfoyle (TSL Publications/GWAA) 2018
• Remembering the East Africa campaign during World War 1 (SA Heritage Portal) 29 November 2018
• First World War Battle in East Africa (United Reformed Church) November 2018
• A Friend of Belgium on World War 1 in Africa (Belgium in the United Kingdom) 23 November 2018
• German South West Africa (Away from the Western Front) October 2018
• The Unknown Fallen: Allied Muslim Involvement in World War I (Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs) 3 Oct 2018 (limited access)
• “A Gentleman’s War: The First World War in Africa” in One Hundred Years after the First World War: Looking Back, Looking Forward (The United Reformed Church and Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz, 2018)
• The End of the 1914-1918 War in Africa (Angelica: An International Journal of English Studies 27/3, University of Warsaw) 2018
• A Boksburg Family goes to War compiled for Scotty McKinlay, grandson of surviving brother (died March 2017)
• The Unknown Fallen: The Global Allied Muslim Contribution in the First World War – Volume 1 (Forgotten Heroes 14-19 Foundation, 2018) [Contribtions on West, East and Southern Africa, co-edited and translations] Review
• War and the formation of Afrikaner nationalism (New Contree No 79), 2017 [correct date for Verwoerd’s assassination is 1966]
• Empires at War 1911–1923, edited by Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History No 45), 2017
• Duty to Empire? South Africa’s invasion of German South West Africa, 1914-1918 (African Research and Documentation No 128, 2015, printed 2017)
• South Africa Mobilises: The First Five Months of the War (Scientia Militaria, 2016)
• Editorial and Chapter in On Call in Africa 1910-1932: Dr Norman Parsons Jewell in Seychelles and East Africa (Gillyflower publications, 2016)
• Jan Christian Smuts 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (30 March 2016)
• East and Central Africa 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (4 March 2016)

• 1916: London meets Africa in World War One, London Historians Newsletter (1 March 2016)
• Ruanda and Urundi, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (18 February 2016)
• South Africa and the German East Africa Campaign (Union of South Africa), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (8 February 2016)
• “East Africa” in The Sikh Chronicles: The Official Journal of the WW1 Sikh Memorial Fund (November, 2015)
• Review of “From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa 1882-1990, Vol 1, Protest and hope, 1882-1934” by S Johns in New Contree (73, November 2015)
• Review of “Ethnicity and empire in Kenya: Loyalty and martial race among the Kamba, c 1800 to the present” by Myles Osborne in New Contree (72, July 2015)

• Consultant for BBC iWonder – Togo and Tanzania (November, 2014)
• “Where fact and fiction intercept: The story of the African Queen(s) by CS Forester” in The Historian (November, 2014)
• Chapter “Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign” in Sokolowska-Paryz, Marzena & Löschnigg, Martin (eds) The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (De Gruyter, 2014)
• Louis Botha in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2015-04-23 (31 August 2015)
• Blog Belgium and the East Africa Campaign (The History Press Blog, 17 August 2014)
• Blog Why were the British/Allied forces unable to dislodge the renowned German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa?  (LSE: Africa at LSE, 4 August 2014)
• Chapter ‘South Africa and the First World War’ in Paddock, Troy (ed) World War 1 and Propaganda (BRILL, History of Warfare volume 94, 2014)
• German East Africa, 1914-1918: a German literature review, South African Military History Society (vol 16, no 3, June 2014)
• Book World War I in Africa: The Forgotten Conflict Among The European Powers (IB Tauris 2012)
  Review: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/04/05/book-review-world-war-i-in-africa-the-forgotten-conflict-among-the-european-powers/
• Review of Mark Mazower’s No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origin of the United Nations (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2013 41:3, 528-530)
• Review of ‘My Life: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’ translated by James Pierce (African Historical Review, vol 5, issue 1, 2013)
• Lord Kitchener in Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, New York)
• Podcast:  The South African Empire (National Archives, London, 2011)
• eBook: The Impact Of The East Africa Campaign, 1914–1918 On South Africa And Beyond.
• Review of Miller, Stephen M., Volunteers on the Veld: Britain’s Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902. H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews. January, 2010.
• ‘The impact of the East Africa Campaign, 1914–1918 on South Africa and beyond’ in Ravi Ahuja, Katrin Bromber, Dyala Hamzah, Heike Liebau and Katharina Lange, (Eds) and provisionally entitled: The World in World Wars. Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from the South (BRILL, 2010)
• ‘Le souvenir de la campagne d’Afrique de l’Est 1914-1918 en Afrique de Sud. L’utilisation de la mémoire par les historiens et l’impact des historiens sur la mémoire’ in Lafon, A, Mastin, D & Piot C (eds) La Grande Guerre aujourd’hui : Mémoire(s), Histoire(s), Actes du Colloque d’Agen-Nérac (14-15 novembre 2008) (Éditions d’Albret & Academie des Sciences, Lettres et arts d’Agen 2009)
  
• Various articles in PROphile: The Magazine of the Friends of The National Archives, including a 20 year history of the Friends (2006 – 2008)
• Britain, South Africa & the East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918: The Union comes of Age (IB Tauris 2006)