Recent Episodes
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Episode 219 - The Snarled Chronicle of John Orr, Wodehouse Blues and Mercantile Matters
Apr 20, 2025 – 18:36 -
Episode 218 - Lifestyle Update 1861 and an Ode to Landscape Motion Intensity and Physiology
Apr 13, 2025 – 18:49 -
Episode 217 - Lovedale, amaXhosa Chiefs Languish on Robben Island and the American Civil War
Apr 4, 2025 – 19:43 -
Episode 216 - Mpande and Cetshwayo’s Shakespearean Drama Continues, it’s all King Lear, Richard III and Macbeth
Mar 30, 2025 – 22:49 -
Episode 215 – Ostriches Trump Elephants in 1860 and John Dunn: Musket Trader Extraordinaire
Mar 22, 2025 – 25:26 -
Episode 214 - Booming Port Elizabeth, Cunning Cape Town, Indentured Indians and Quarrelling Republics
Mar 16, 2025 – 24:43 -
Episode 213 - Grey Mediates, Boshof Fulminates and Moshoeshoe Vacillates before the Treaty of Aliwal North
Mar 9, 2025 – 21:45 -
Episode 212 - The Basotho-Boer War of 1858 leads to a Burgher Backfire
Mar 2, 2025 – 23:15 -
Episode 211 - “Native” Hut Taxes, Blackbirding and other Revelations of 1857
Feb 23, 2025 – 22:31 -
Episode 210 - Social Bandits on the Borderlands and other hybrid tales of Nomansland
Feb 16, 2025 – 20:23 -
Episode 209 - Cetshwayo attacks Mbuyazi at the Battle of Ndondakusuka where the Crocodiles Feast
Feb 8, 2025 – 21:50 -
Episode 208 - Believers vs Unbelievers, Ancestor Veneration and the Stupifying Logic of Global Millenarianism
Feb 2, 2025 – 25:38 -
Episode 207 - A Moon of Wonders and Dangers, Supernatural Horsemen and HMS Geyser Turns Tail
Jan 26, 2025 – 24:41 -
Episode 206 - Nongqawuse’s Bush of Ghosts, Mhlakaza’s Anglican Episode and Sarhili Goes to Gxarha
Jan 19, 2025 – 21:15 -
Episode 205 - A Crimean/Russian Struggle Thread, Two Disabled Free Staters and a Surveyor Surge
Jan 12, 2025 – 23:46 -
Episode 204 - Planet Earth 1855, the Regal Cetshwayo kaMpande and Natal Land Realities
Jan 5, 2025 – 19:52 -
Episode 203 - The Siege of Makapansgat and Misnomerclature
Dec 29, 2024 – 24:03 -
Episode 202 - America’s Constitutional link to Boer Republics and a Cave Looms large
Dec 22, 2024 – 24:30 -
Episode 201 - Labour, Lovedale and Roads are all the Rage in 1854
Dec 15, 2024 – 25:09 -
Episode 200 - Sir George Grey’s Racial Amalgamation Thesis, its Maori Roots and Opiate Dependency
Dec 8, 2024 – 21:27 -
Episode 199 - Cognitive Dissonance, Desiccated Hags, a Trail of Tears and Ssehura Baartman
Dec 1, 2024 – 22:30 -
Episode 198 - 1853: The Crimean War, Historical Doppler Effects and Quitrent in Keiskamma Hoek
Nov 24, 2024 – 21:12 -
Episode 197 - The Show Trial of Andries Botha and the Forgotten Significance of the 8th Frontier War
Nov 17, 2024 – 22:15 -
Episode 196 - An Irishman-penned Cape Qualified Franchise Constitution and Boots Cathcart on the Ground
Nov 10, 2024 – 23:02 -
Episode 195 - Mpande’s Mswati beef, a bit about Reserves and Bantustans and a Lashing of Self Government
Nov 3, 2024 – 25:30 -
Episode 194 - The Battle of Berea leads to an Anglo-Basotho Mutual Admiration Society
Oct 27, 2024 – 21:23 -
Episode 193: Guthrie’s 1852 Four-Colour Problem, Sports Schedules, Mobile Frequencies, AI, and the Battle of Berea
Oct 20, 2024 – 23:28 -
Episode 192 - The Sand River Convention, the Transvaal slash Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek dot co dot za
Oct 12, 2024 – 22:24 -
Episode 191 - Trekkers' Bob-and-Weave Politics, Meneer Van Der Kolff forges a signature and a library burns
Oct 5, 2024 – 23:48 -
Episode 190 - The Birkenhead Drill 'Women and Children First’ tragedy and amaXhosa messages moving at the speed of light
Sep 29, 2024 – 21:49 -
Episode 189 - Karl Marx at the Great Exhibition, Eyre's Great Cattle Patrol and Smith gets the boot
Sep 22, 2024 – 20:32 -
Episode 188 - Hymns echo in the Waterkloof ravines as Khoekhoe snipers take aim at British officers
Sep 15, 2024 – 24:28 -
Episode 187 - The Albany Rangers and Mantsopa the soothsayer emerges amongst the BaSotho
Sep 8, 2024 – 22:26 -
Episode 186 - Cognate Epistemology, TikTok and Nkosi Sandile assaults Alice
Sep 1, 2024 – 22:20 -
Episode 185 - The Kat River Rebellion and the Mistress of Southern Africa is threatened
Aug 25, 2024 – 22:47 -
Episode 184 - A Fort Hare rout, “Vieux d’Afrique” Somerset and a British rethink about the role of chiefs in Africa
Aug 18, 2024 – 22:41 -
Episode 183 - Maqoma lectures lecherous missionary Brown and the pendulating Hermanus Matroos
Aug 11, 2024 – 20:09 -
Episode 182 - The English Column’s Desperate March to Fort White
Aug 4, 2024 – 19:01 -
Episode 181 - The amaXhosa ambush Mackinnon’s column and a quick introduction to Tiyo Soga
Jul 28, 2024 – 10:21 -
Episode 180 - Missionary Browns’ philanderings and the Redcoats face Christmas armageddon in the Boma Pass
Jul 21, 2024 – 24:03 -
Episode 179 - A messianic prophet emerges in 1850: Mlanjeni the Wardoctor
Jul 14, 2024 – 20:46 -
Episode 178 - A string of forts and Captain Maclean’s amaXhosa police recruits take revenge
Jul 7, 2024 – 22:22 -
Episode 177 - The Missionaries position on sex and British administrators refuse to learn
Jun 30, 2024 – 20:04 -
Episode 176 - Cape Conservatives vs Radicals in 1850, a synopsis of souls and climate dystopia
Jun 22, 2024 – 21:18 -
Episode 175 - A whip around the world in 1849 and a wide-angle view of Cape Society
Jun 16, 2024 – 19:46 -
Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein
Jun 9, 2024 – 23:14 -
Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter’s last trek
Jun 1, 2024 – 25:44 -
Episode 172 - The Republic of Potchefstroom, Potgieter treks into Bapedi country and Mswati faces rebellion
May 26, 2024 – 19:58 -
Episode 171 - Zwangendaba’s exodus from Pongola to Lake Tanganyika and the story of the Ngoni
May 19, 2024 – 20:45 -
Episode 170 - Harry Smith returns as the conquering hero and humiliates Maqoma while translators muddle along
May 12, 2024 – 25:04
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