Some attitudes in Grahamstown towards the advent of the second Anglo-Boer War
In October 1899 the Anglo-Boer War broke out.This article looks at how so quintessentially English speaking a community as late-Victorian Grahamstown (especially some of its local newspapers) reacted to the gathering Fleece Jackets crisis.Underlying the most obvious - but certainly not entirely representative - outburst of popular jingoistic feelin