This paper examines three major feature films made in South Africa in 1916–18, and still surviving in archives. All three films were directed and/or scripted by Harold Marvin Shaw. De Voortrekkers/ Winning a Continent (1916) and The Symbol of Sacrifice (1918) were made for the African Film Productions Ltd of I.W. Schlesinger. They were nation-building historical ep...

The first Southern African Historical Society meeting outside the Union or Republic of South Africa is an opportunity to look wider than national histories, and forward as well as back. This paper raises nine points for the production of public as well as scholarly history. The need for historical studies to burst out of national barriers. What is or has been South...