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Google Analytics are routinely collected each month and brief reports on these are available by CLICKING HERE. These do not collect individual information about SAWM users, but are concerned with site pages accessed and parts of the world they are accessed from. They offer a snapshot of changing use of the SAWM pages and help in responding to user preferences.

Guides and Publications

The UK’s British Academy and ESRC, and the Mellon Fund, funded the researches that led to the photographs on the SAWM website of the concentration camp memorials, other South African memorials and British military memorials. The research on black memorials is a new, separate one concerned with these memorials in their own right.

From the links below, guides to the different photograph galleries can be downloaded, and also the publications produced from these linked projects on the rise of nationalism can be accessed. There are also some relevant websites indicated at the end of the page. Just click on the titles, including for the book that resulted from the research, which is centrally concerned with commemoration and remembrance as present-time political productions that involve much forgetting.

Guides

Publications

A range of relevant publications can be accessed from the links below.

2002. Liz Stanley A ‘secret history’ of local mourning: the South African War and state commemoration. Society in Transition, 33, 1, 1-25.

2002. Liz Stanley. Women’s South African War testimonies – remembering, forgetting and forgiving in Should We Forget

2004. Liz Stanley. “Black labour and the concentration system of the South African War” Joernaal vir Eietdse Geskiedenis/Journal of Contemporary History. 28, 2, pp.190-213.

2005. Liz Stanley & Helen Dampier. Aftermaths – post-memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899-1902

2005. Liz Stanley. `A Strange Thing is Memory’: Emily Hobhouse, Memory Work, Moral Life and the `Concentration System’` South African Historical Journal, 52, pp.60-81.

2006. Liz Stanley. Mourning Becomes…: Post/memory and Commemoration of the Concentration Camps of the South African War 1899-1902 Manchester University Press. “This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results from a deliberate imposition of ‘post/memory’ – a process by which what was ‘remembered’ was shaped and reshaped to support the development of a racialised nationalist framework. Many of the camps’ occupants died from successive epidemics of measles, typhoid, enteritis and pneumonia rather than deliberate ill-treatment, yet the book shows how mourning for those who died was overridden by state commemorative activities concerned with promoting pan-Boer nationalist aspirations. The innovative and groundbreaking approach of the author invites the reader to step into and explore with her the commemorative sites passed by nationalist land acts, which still powerfully mark the South African landscape.”

2006. Liz Stanley & Sue Wise. Putting It into Practice – Using Feminist Fractured Foundationalism in Researching Children in the Concentration Camps of the South African War

2008. Liz Stanley. Madness to the method – Using a narrative methodology to analyse large-scale complex social phenomena

2009. Liz Stanley & Helen Dampier. The Number of the South African War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp Dead – Standard Stories, Superior Stories and a Forgotten Proto-Nationalist Research Investigation

2015. Liz Stanley. Operationalizing a QLR project on social change and whiteness in South Africa, 1770s-1970s

Other relevant websites

The ‘Gravestones in South Africa’ project is available on the Genealogical Society of South Africa at https://graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=43 . The Bethulie concentration camp gravestones have been individually photographed. (https://graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=746322).
The medically oriented ‘British Concentration Camps of the South African War’ database is hosted at the University of Cape Town at:  https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/