2 February 2023
PROBUS Harpenden: Kitchener
27 November 2022
East Rand Military History Society: Christmas in World War 1 Africa
19 October 2022
Kitchener Scholarship Fund: Centenary Panel discussion
21 September 2022
Highfield Women’s Institute: Novels of World War 1 in Africa
25 August 2022
South African Military History Society (Eastern Cape Branch): Vic Clapham’s World War 1 service (8 South African Infantry) and the Comrades Marathon (transcript ; slides/maps ; video 20mins;)
16 August 2022
Ceder’s Village, Chorleywood: Novels of World War 1 in Africa
31 July 2022
East Rand Military History Society: The South African Home Front in WW1: Social and Economic (transcript)
14 July 2022
South African Military History Society (Johannesburg branch): The South African Economy at war, 1914-1918 (video; transcript)
8 July 2022
Hatfield U3A: The First World War African air war
17 June 2022
St Alban’s Masons: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
14 June 2022
NW Kent WFA Branch: The First World War African air war (transcript)
10 June 2022
Bedmond Women’s Institute: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
28 May 2022
Victorian Military History Society conference (National Army Museum): The 2nd Anglo-Boer War – Kitchener: the hero with clay feet
9 May 2022
PROBUS Pinner: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
18 April 2022
Western Front Association online: Kitchener’s influence on the war in Africa (transcript, see the webinar on the WFA Youtube channel)
18 March 2022
Amersham Free Church Men’s Lunch group: Kitchener: The man not the myth (in support of Street Kids Direct, Guatamala)
21 February 2022
Highwood Women’s Club: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
2 February 2022
PROBUS Gerrards Cross: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
2 February 2022
Interview with RedCoat History on Kitchener: The Man not the Myth; see Youtube – https://youtu.be/HQj2uDDFnlY or audio on all podcasting apps including – https://redcoathistory.podbean.com/e/the-man-in-the-ww1-poster-kitchener-the-full-story/
13 December 2021
South African Military History Society (Eastern Cape Branch): Experiences of Christmas in World War 1(transcript ; Slides with references)
19 August 2021
Women’s Institute, Little Gaddesden: Medical aspects of the First World War in Africa
26 July 2021
PROBUS, Pinner: Kitchener An overview
25 July 2021
East Rand Military History Society, Benoni: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
5 July 2021
British Empire’s African soldiers to receive belated recognition: interview with Chris Szabo, Defenceweb
12 June 2021
National Army Museum, Western Front Association & British Commission for Military History conference: 27+ = We all served in Africa 1914-1918 (transcript) (Africa session presentations ; all sessions)
18 May 2021
Western Front Association podcast on Kitchener: the man not the myth released (listen here)
8 April 2021
South African Military History Society, Johannesburg, 9 South African Infantry vs General Smuts: the repercussions of a complaint by 9SAI in 1916 East Africa (zoom video 24 mins) transcript
30 March 2021
Stellenbosch University History Seminar, 54: Do we really need another biography on Kitchener?
22 February 2021
South African Military History Society, Eastern Cape, Facial Furniture (zoom video 12 mins)
21 January 2021
East Rand/Benoni Military History Society, Novels, some SA inspiration, and the formation of MI5 and MI6 (zoom video 30 mins – same talk given on 10 September below), transcript
7, 14, 21 October 2020
MACHS, Magaliesburg, Kitchener: The man not the myth – 3 webinars
19 September 2020
URC History Society, Response to Dr Steve Tomkins’ Journey to the Mayflower (Youtube, starts 25.50mins)
10 September 2020
South African Military History Society, Johannesburg, Novels, some SA inspiration, and the formation of MI5 and MI6 (zoom video 30 mins), transcript
25 June 2020
South African Military History Society, Johannesburg, Kitchener’s Ladies (zoom video 18 mins), transcript
31 May 2020
East Rand Military History Society, Benoni, Feet of Clay
20 November 2019
Rickmansworth Garden, Arts & Homecrafts Society: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
16 November 2019
Hertfordshire History Society: Lord Kitchener
11 September 2019
U3A Welwyn/Hatfield: Jan Smuts vs Nelson Mandela
8 August 2019
SA Military History Society, Durban: Natal’s involvement in the First World War
28 July 2019
East Rand Military History Society, Benoni: The Influence of the First World War on African Nationalism
11 July 2019
SA Military History Society, Johannesburg: Military Chaplains in the early 20th century
5 July 2019
Royal Airforce Officers Club, Illovo: The air war in Africa during World War 1
26-27 June 2019
United Reformed Church History Society, Cambridge: The end of the First World War
18 May 2019
OU RHS Contested Commemorations Programme, Open University, Milton Keynes: Who in Africa remembered? Who remembered Africa?
15 May 2019
Weybridge JACS: God Bless Africa
A century of religious diversity in South Africa and the National Anthem
13 May 2019
Highwood Women’s Group, Bushey: St John’s Northwood VAD Hospital
22 March 2019
Breaking the Myths: World War 1 in Africa workshop at Legacies of the First World War Diversity Festival
18 March 2019
Interview with Drive Time radio Voice of Islam on The Unknown Fallen
6 December 2018
Book launch at Bookdealers BluBird, South Africa: In conversation with Nick Southey (UNISA) on Zambia – the end of the war and There came a time: Essays on the Great War in Africa
24 November 2018
Zambia: What the end of the war meant for Africa
12-13 November 2018
UNISA: Legacy of the First World War in Southern Africa
9 November 2018
Africa and the end of the war (Voice of America) 9 November 2018
8 November 2018
South African Military History Society, Johannesburg: Peace comes to Africa? The end of World War 1
31 November 2018
BookDealers, Johannesburg: Book launch: World War 1 in Africa: The forgotten conflict of the European powers (paperback due Sept 2018)
28 October 2018
East Rand Military History Society, Benoni: Medicine in World War 1 Africa
24 October 2018
Diversity House, UK Parliament: Breaking the Myths: World War 1 in Africa
10 September 2018
Languages and the First World War, Europe House London: Language in the East Africa campaign 1914-1918
25 July 2018
Weybridge JACS: Smuts vs Mandela
19 May 2018
Victorian Military History Seminar: The Legion of Frontiersmen: protecting the empire (summary of talk)
28 April 2018
Forgotten Heroes 1914-18, British Library London: Book launch: The Unknown Fallen (Muslims in World War 1)
23/24 March 2018
Medical History of World War 1, Army Medical Department Center of History & Heritage: Texas (by Skype) “It’s war, don’t complain!”: Enquiries into medical services during the East Africa campaign
15-16 March 2018
Diversity House, France: Breaking the Myths: World War 1 – Delville Wood school trip
30 July 2017
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- East Rand Military History Society, Benoni: Jaap van Deventer: who was he?
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24 July 2017, 11.05am
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- Classic FM102.7 (South Africa): Classic Lifestyle with Tamara LePine-Williams on Africa and the peace talks, 1919
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28 June 2017
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- JACS, Weybridge: World War 1 in East Africa
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2 June 2017
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- Swale Borough Council, Sittingbourne: World War 1 & Africa: Legacies of Conflict: Africa and the Rights of Small Nations: The Impact of the Versailles Discussions
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5 May 2017
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- National Army Museum: African women at war Paper May 2017
- National Army Museum: African women at war Paper May 2017
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22 February 2017
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- History Society, Warwick University, World War 1 Africa: Cross-cultural research in a digital world
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17 February 2017
20 January 2017
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- Sessions House, Kent County Council, Maidstone Breaking the Myths-World War 1 and Africa: Feet of Endurance: World War 1 in Africa (images; listen)
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18 January 2017
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- JACS, Northwood: World War 1 in East Africa
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6 September 2016
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- SCOLMA, Cambridge: Medicine in World War 1 Africa
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28 August 2016
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- East Rand Military History Society, Benoni: George Farrar: Traitor or Loyalist?
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12 August 2016
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- University of Johannesburg The World Wars and/in Africa Symposium: “Researching World War I in Africa: The Importance of Crossing Boundaries”
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11 August 2016
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- South African Military History Society, Johannesburg: How novels of WW1 Africa relate to the reality
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2 July 2016
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- Hidden Histories conference, Nottingham: Africa’s war
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20 June 2016
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- U3A Northwood & Pinner District: The Northwood VAD Hospital, 1914-1918
- U3A Northwood & Pinner District: The Northwood VAD Hospital, 1914-1918
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18 February 2016
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- The National Archives, Kew, London Hands on History event. The First World War in Africa, War Diaries and the Wider Picture: Hei ho! It’s off to war I go..
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21 October 2015
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- Dakar, Senegal, Point Sud workshop on The Great War in Africa: Economic, Cultural and Political Consequences of the First World War on African Societies (20-24 October 2015): The East African Melting Pot
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19 September 2015
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- King’s College London Workshop, Colonialism, War and Photography: The war-time experience of two official photographers in East Africa 1915-1917
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17 July 2015
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- SCOLMA, British Library, There came a Darkness: Africa, Africans and World War One: Duty to Empire? South Africa’s invasion of German South West Africa
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2 July 2015
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- Stellenbosch, South African Historical Association, Unsettling Stories and Unstable Subjects (1-3 July 2015): Who remembers the ‘Boy’ who carried World War 1 in East Africa?
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29 June 2015
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- Stellenbosch, The Great War in Africa (29-30 June 2015): Against the odds: South Africa mobilises for war, 1914-1915
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19 February 2015
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- UNISA History Department seminar: Lord Kitchener
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29 January 2015
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- Rand Club, Johannesburg: Mining Magnates and World War 1
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25 January 2015
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- East Rand Historical Society, Benoni: Gangsters, rebels and railways: The East Rand and World War 1, Sept 1914-March 1915
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15 January 2015
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- South African Military History Society, Johannesburg: Kitchener, Lettow Vorbeck and Smuts in East Africa, WW1
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11-12 October 2014
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- National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Beyond the Western Front: the forgotten theatres, contingents and campaigns of the First World War: Your country needs you! But not in Africa: Lord Kitchener and the Great War in Africa
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2-4 October 2014
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- Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (Sub-project “Narratives of the Future in Modern African and Atlantic History”), Catastrophe or catalyst?African and African Diasporas’ visions arising from World War One: The clash of visions in South Africa, 1914-1918
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30 September 2014-1 October 2014
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- Instituto da Defesa Nacional – Lisboa “Small Power is a Power? The Role and Resilience of Small and Medium Powers During the
Great War 1914-1918”: The opportunity of war: South Africa in World War 1 – a case study (keynote)
- Instituto da Defesa Nacional – Lisboa “Small Power is a Power? The Role and Resilience of Small and Medium Powers During the
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23 July 2014
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- British High Commission Residence, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: launch of Great War Centenary hosted by Ambassadors of Britain, Germany and Belgium, When two bulls clash, the grass suffers: the impact of World War 1 in East Africa
The Tanzanian Citizen report: http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/HISTORY–How-WWI-broke-out-in-East-Africa/-/1840392/2402526/-/vit9lw/-/index.html
and the Mwananchi article (in Swahili): https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=542175039215775&id=257177401048875&refid=17
- British High Commission Residence, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: launch of Great War Centenary hosted by Ambassadors of Britain, Germany and Belgium, When two bulls clash, the grass suffers: the impact of World War 1 in East Africa
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11 July 2014
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- University of Lisbon, Great War in Africa Conference, combined annual conference of the International Network of the study of the Great War in Africa and the Great War in Africa Association, When two bulls clash: the impact of World War 1 in Africa
- University of Lisbon, Great War in Africa Conference, combined annual conference of the International Network of the study of the Great War in Africa and the Great War in Africa Association, When two bulls clash: the impact of World War 1 in Africa
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June 2014
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- Northwood College Assemblies Women in World War 1
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25 March 2014
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- Interview by SA Sunday Times (Archie Henderson) re SA and WW1: The distant war that defined a new country published on 3 August 2014
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15 March 2014
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- Hertfordshire Historical Association, With Lettow-Vorbeck and Smuts in Africa during World War 1
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13 March 2014
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- St John’s Guild, Northwood, Novels of the East Africa campaign
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18 February 2014
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- Interview with Guardian Film on WW1 and Africa
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16 January 2014
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- South African Military History Society, Johannesburg, Behind the scenes of South Africa’s involvement in World War 1
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9 November 2013
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- GWAA Conference, London
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7 November 2013
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- Rhiems University – The diversity of troops in the South, Central and East African campaigns
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18 July 2013
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- Harrow Writers’ Group – Historical Novel Writing
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1-2 July 2013
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- International Network of the Great War in Africa, Lisbon, South Africa’s neighbours and World War 1
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30 January 2013
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- Twyford High School, History, memory and literature
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28 January 2013
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- Western Front Association, Hampshire & IOW, Kitchener, Lettow-Vorbeck, Smuts and East Africa, 1914-1919
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15 November 2012
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- South African Military History Society, Johannesburg, Kitchener – Enigma and architect of Africa
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7 November 2012
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- Brenthurst Library, Johannesburg, The South African Mining Magnates and World War One
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3 November 2012
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- Boksburg Historical Association, Boksburg, The South African mining magnates and World War One
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11 October 2012
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- South African Military History Society, Cape Town, Smuts and Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in East Africa
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7-9 September 2012
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- War & Memory Conference, Warsaw, Poland The development of memory in Europe(ans) of the East Africa campaign of the First World War
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10 July 2012
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- Imperial War Museum, London Reappraising the First World War: In Africa series – A century of remembering: the Great War in East Africa
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14 July 2012
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- The National Archives, London, Great War in East Africa, The politics of the campaign
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October 2010
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- Probus, Boksburg South Africa, The unknown story of the East Africa Campaign of 1914-1919
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8 April 2010
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- Friends of The National Archives, Kew, The South African Empire
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April 2010
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- National Army Museum, London, East Africa and the Peace Discussions at Versailles
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26 June 2009
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- New Lisbon University Lisbon, Portugal, East Africa and the peace discussions at Versailles
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9 May 2009
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- Fundacao Luso Americana Lisbon, Portugal, Britain’s response to South Africa in Angola between 1975 and 1990
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14-16 November 2008
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- Agen, France (published 2009), The remembrance of the East Africa campaign in South Africa: Historians use of and impact on memory
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9 June 2007
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- ZMO Berlin (published by Brill 2010), The impact of the East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond
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23-24 March 2006
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- University of Newcastle, National Memory, First World War Conference
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17 March 2003
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- University of Sussex, Postgraduate conference on Conflict and Change
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