October 10, 2019

HOW TO DO AND PRESENT LOCAL HISTORY

Catholic Church Hall: refreshments 15.30, meeting 16.00 HOW TO DO AND PRESENT LOCAL HISTORY – A presentation by Robin Lee This illustrated presentation will deal with the following questions: What is ‘local history’? What are the focal points needed in researching local history? What aspects of general history are also […]
October 9, 2019

James Douglas Logan, the ‘ideal colonist’

Writer Dr Robin Lee One of the frequent visitors to Hermanus in the early 20th century was James Douglas Logan (1857–1920). A writer has called him ‘the ideal colonist’, and that is true. In the mid-to late-Victorian era, Britain produced colonists in large numbers. The essential components were: an interrupted […]