Diaries, Letters & Journals

Inspiration and ideas for making unique and personal scrapbook albums using simple craft materials. Techniques include iris folding, paper collage, working with paint, chalk, ink, stamps and stencils, embossing metal, and making tags, envelopes and pop-up pages.

Wanneer ’n mens aan die ervarings van Boerevroue en -kinders tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog dink, is die outomatiese konnotasie die van konsentrasiekamplyding. ’n Fassinerende en grotendeels onbekende buitebeentjie in hierdie genre is die dagboek van Anna Barry, waaruit ’n unieke en veelkantige beeld van die oorlog na vore kom.

Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came upon a slim volume.