4 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 31

Buller, Beer And Biltong

Barbara Trapido LADYSMITH by Giles Foden Faber, £9.99, pp. 366 T he Boer War is still with us. It is the reason why English football grounds have terraces called 'the Kop' and......

Scapegoats Of History

Byron Rogers THE WORLD OF THE FAVOURITE edited by J. H. Elliott and L. W. B. Brockliss Yale, £35, pp. 320 F or most of the 16th and part of the 17th century, many European......

Staying On To Good Purpose

David Gilmour SAVAGING THE CIVILIZED: VERRIER ELWIN, HIS TRIBALS AND INDIA by Ramachandra Guha University of Chicago Press, £22.50, pp. 336 N o one resembling Verrier Elwin......