Individual pagination of each pamphlet – about 500 pages – no title page or index, black and white illustrations, green moirè water stained at the edges, titled gilt on the spine.
A collection of pamphlets on the Anglo Boer War which include the following:
Incomplete set of pamphlets published by the South African Conciliation Committee.
Several reprints from the Morning Leader - the London Liberal Newspaper.
Pamphlets from the League Against Aggression and Militarism.
A letter from Olive Schreiner -Stabbing the heart of the British Empire – in which she states – War is a terrible thing; but when it is undertaken in the services of Wealth and to crush Freedom – it is hell.
The truth about the War – an open letter to Dr. A. Conan Doyle by John M.Robertson National Reform Union Pamphlets.
The Transvaal question - Mr F. Selous on the War.
The South Africa Conciliation Committee was a British anti-war organisation opposed to the Anglo Boer War. The committee was formed in 1899 in response to the outbreak of the war, for the "dissemination of accurate information", and to seek an early "peaceable settlement between this country and the Boer Republics". The Conciliation Committee campaigned chiefly for formal negotiations to end the war. Among other movements, the Conciliation Committee was seen to be taking the centre ground, aiming to keep South Africa in the British Empire rather than pressing for the British to withdraw unilaterally, making non-partisan appeals to reason. The Conciliation Committee's distinctive role was seen by The Spectator as providing authentic information about the war. Emily Hobhouse visited South Africa in 1900–1; her 1901 report on the British concentration camps led to the Fawcett Commission, which formally confirmed her findings. The South African branch of the Conciliation Committee was founded in Cape Town in early 1900, under the chairmanship of prominent parliamentarian John Molteno. It fought a long-running (though ultimately relatively successful) battle against state censorship and martial law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_Conciliation_Committee
- Size: 8vo (220 x140mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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- Telephone: 021 794 0600
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- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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