The Boer War Concentration Camps: Emily Hobhouse and the Scandal
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In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), a humanitarian catastrophe that claimed the lives of over 26,000 Boer women and children and thousands of Black Africans. They focus on the work of Emily Hobhouse, the British campaigner who exposed the appalling conditions in the camps, and the subsequent Fawcett Commission. The conversation covers the origins of the camps under Lord Kitchener's scorched-earth policy, the shocking mortality rates from measles and typhoid, the government cover-up, and the long-term impact on Afrikaner nationalism and South African history. They also discuss the debate over whether the camps constituted genocide, and how the memory of the camps has been used politically in the 20th and 21st centuries. #BoerWar #ConcentrationCamps #EmilyHobhouse #SecondAngloBoerWar #FawcettCommission #Kitchener #ScorchedEarth #AfrikanerNationalism #SouthAfricanHistory #WarCrimes #HumanitarianCrisis #Measles #Typhoid #Bloemfontein #Standerton #History #FexingoHistory #WomenInHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
