This is a podcast of the history of an image of a hanging that took place in Rhodesia in 1896 at the time of the First Chimurenga (or Matabele Uprising). The image appeared in a book by Olive Schreiner, ‘Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland’, and in a court case against Cecil Rhodes. It comprises interviews with Prof Paul Walters and Brian Willan.

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