by Marion Ellis | Jan 6, 2023 | South African History Specialists, Specialists
She finds stories that reflect the multiple layering of human history on our South African landscape. Her PhD explored the role that the process of curation and engagement with the archive and historical representation can play in heritage and transformation work. On...
by Marion Ellis | Jan 6, 2023 | South African History Specialists, Specialists
She has co-authored a two-volume history: Cape Town. The Making of a City, and Cape Town in the Twentieth Century and is an Honorary Research Associate in the History Department, University of Stellenbosch. This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British...
by Marion Ellis | Aug 23, 2013 | South African History Specialists, Specialists
Being Natal Midlands born and educated, serving with Zulu troops during his SA national service, and voyaging around the globe cementing his interest in people, cultures and history – were the skills he brought to David and Nicky Rattray’s...
by Marion Ellis | Jul 17, 2011 | South African History Specialists, Specialists
Highly recognised authority on Cape history, who has published The Forgotten Frontier – Colonists and Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century; Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: 18th Century Cape Characters; The Khoisan and the...