Zulu Musings

MORE CINEMA SCREENINGS OF 4K ZULU DAWN

In order to celebrate the forthcoming disc release by Severin Films of the hi-def 4K restoration of Zulu Dawn, two more cinema screenings in the…

Feb 9 • Ian Knight

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January 2026

ZULU DAWN - REVISITED

Last Saturday (24 Jan 2026, for those of you reaching this in the far future!) I was lucky enough to give an introduction at the premiere screening of…

Jan 29 • Ian Knight

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Who Was The Real Otto Witt?

Jack Hawkins and Ulla Jacobssen as Otto and Margaretta Witt in Zulu.

Jan 7 • Ian Knight

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Is this the Grave of Surgeon Peter Shepherd? Pondering a mystery of the ‘fugitives’ trail’

Is this the grave of Surgeon Peter Shepherd at iSandlwana?

Jan 5 • Ian Knight

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October 2025

'WHAT DO YOU COME HERE FOR?' The defiance of ordinary Zulus during the war of 1879.

A Zulu matron at iSandlwana in the 1960s; is she remembering a father or grandfather who fought there?

Oct 9, 2025 • Ian Knight

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September 2025

The Walk to 'The Bewhiskered Man'

‘In the days of Cetshwayo’

Sep 24, 2025 • Ian Knight

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NEARLY A VC; An Incident in the Siege of Eshowe

The mission station at Eshowe as fortified by Pearson’s men; the largest British fortification built during the Anglo-Zulu War.

Sep 19, 2025 • Ian Knight

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August 2025

JOHN LABAND; AN OBITUARY

John and his wife Fen in London in April 2025.

Aug 14, 2025 • Ian Knight

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July 2025

'SKIRMISHING ON THE INHLOBANE'; The Background to an Original Watercolour of the Anglo-Zulu War

A few years ago I came across a watercolour of an nineteenth-century battlescene.

Jul 29, 2025 • Ian Knight

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Anglo-Zulu War Art at the National Army Museum!

With Lady Butler at the new National Army Museum exhibition ‘Myth and Reality; Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria’.

Jul 25, 2025 • Ian Knight

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'Not A Hope!'

The Incidence of Suicide in the Anglo-Zulu War

Jul 25, 2025 • Ian Knight

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'THE VICTORIA CROSSES OF MELVILL AND COGHILL'

A BOOK REVIEW

Jul 7, 2025 • Ian Knight

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