Tag Archives: Imperial History

Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

Posted on 16/11/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

A year after the great African explorer Dr David Livingstone’s death in 1873, his friend Horace Waller published an edited version of his diaries. In his introduction to ‘The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to … Continue reading →

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An East African Israel

Posted on 30/06/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

In 1903, during the premiership of Arthur Balfour (later the author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917), the British government offered a territory of 5,000 square miles on the Uasin Gishu (Gwas Ngishu) plateau in the British East Africa Protectorate to the World … Continue reading →

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McLeod of the Niger

Posted on 21/08/2010 by J.F. Gjersø

An old soldier neglected by an ungenerous country. (The Morning Leader, October 1892) English governments have a rather unpleasant reputation for neglecting the humbler heroes of the nation; and another instance of the kind which goes to support the public impression … Continue reading →

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La Guerre d’Algérie

Posted on 09/06/2010 by J.F. Gjersø

“War is an act of violence that has no limit.”[1] Upon Algerian independence in 1962, France and its former colony could look back at an armed conflict that had lasted for eight years, cost the lives of close to half … Continue reading →

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