Historic

196 sites

1896-7 Rebellion Memorials

Bulawayo

A veteran’s account from the Battle of Bembesi in 1893 and when Joe Smith knocked down Cecil Rhodes and saved his life in 1896

Bulawayo

Administration and Government 1889 – 1953

Harare

An 1886 journey through the Bechuanaland Protectorate along the Western Old Lake Route to the Victoria Falls that nearly ended in disaster

Matabeleland North

Anglo Boer War graves at Paradise Plot Cemetery, Marondera

Mashonaland East

Angwa (Ongoe) – Afro-Portuguese Feira sites in Mashonaland West

Mashonaland West

Antonio Fernandes, probably the first European traveller to Zimbabwe in 1511 - 12

Mashonaland Central

Arcturus village

Mashonaland East

Battle of Bembesi (called Egodade by the amaNdebele) on the 1 November 1893

Matabeleland South

Battle of Ntaba zika Mambo, Manyanga or Mambo Hills

Matabeleland North

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 1, the first few weeks and the patrols sent to rescue outlying farmers, prospectors and storekeepers

Bulawayo

Bulawayo and the Matabele Rebellion (or Umvukela) – Part 2, after the first few weeks, a change in tactics

Bulawayo

Bulawayo in the 90’s

Bulawayo

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city

Bulawayo

Bulawayo’s 40th Anniversary in 1933 celebrating the 1893 occupation of Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Bumbusi Ruin and Rock Engravings

Matabeleland North

By Zeederberg Coach to Bulawayo in 1895

Bulawayo

Charles Trelawney ('Lion') Stevens gravesite

Mashonaland East

Chief Chinengundu Mashayamombe’s stronghold, Fort Martin and Cemetery

Mashonaland West

Chief Tendai Mutasa's Indaba Tree, Penhalonga

Manicaland

Colin Harding – the man in charge of the execution of Chief Chingaira Makoni – his life and career in early Rhodesia

Mashonaland East

Contemporary criticism of the British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1889 – 90 from Henry Labouchère the editor of the journal Truth

Harare

Crooks Corner

Masvingo

Cross Kopje, Mutare

Manicaland

Dambarare – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site

Mashonaland Central

Dan Judson and the Africa Transcontinental Telegraph Co

Mashonaland Central

Danangombe Monument (formerly Dhlo-Dhlo Ruins)

Matabeleland South

David Tyrie Laing and the near-disaster Matobo Hills engagement in the 1896 Matabele Uprising or Umvukela

Matabeleland South

Devil’s Pass and Fort Watts

Mashonaland East

Dr Arthur H. Newnham’s personal account of the siege at Hartley Hill fort from 16 June to their relief by Capt White’s column on 22 July 1896

Mashonaland West

Early European visitors to Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Early Mail Services

Bulawayo

Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe who raised the flag at Salisbury, now Harare on 13 September 1890

Harare

Extracts from Frank Oates’ ox-wagon journey in 1873 from Tati to Gubulawayo

Matabeleland North

Felixburg

Masvingo

Field Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE and his connection with Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Filabusi Memorial and the Edkins Store killings

Matabeleland South

First Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, KCB, DSO – the Great War engineer whose mine explosions at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917 were heard 240 kms away in London

Mashonaland West

First treks into Manicaland

Manicaland

Fort Charter

Midlands

Fort Gibbs and Sgt. William Maxwell's grave

Midlands

Fort Harding, Chief Chikwakwa and Headman Gondo’s kraals and Warrendale Farm Police Camp

Mashonaland East

Fort Haynes and the fight at Chief Chingaira Makoni’s Kraal

Manicaland

Fort Hill – the first site of Umtali (now Mutare)

Manicaland

Fort Ingwenya and Cemetery

Midlands

Fort Que Que (now Kwekwe)

Midlands

Fort Rixon Rebellion Memorial (Matabele Uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

Matabeleland South

Fort Tuli

Matabeleland South

Fort Umlugulu (previously Fort Nsezi, or Sugar-bush Camp) and the Cemetery

Matabeleland South

Fort Usher No. 3

Matabeleland South

Frederick Courteney Selous’ hunting trips from 1876 – 1885 with records from his original game book

Midlands

Frederick “Freddy” Hugh Barber, hunter, trader, artist – visited the Victoria Falls in 1875 and Matabeleland in 1877

Bulawayo

George Westbeech and the road to Pandamatenga

Matabeleland North

George ‘Joros’ Westbeech’s influence in the lower Zambesi Valley and his 1885-1888 diaries

Matabeleland North

Gubulawayo, or Old Bulawayo (1870 – 1881) and the Indaba Tree

Bulawayo

Gweru Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896)

Midlands

Halfway House Agricultural Machinery

Manicaland

Harare, capital of Zimbabwe

Harare

Harare’s oldest House at 110 Livingston Avenue, Harare

Harare

How Mutare and Manicaland were annexed from the Portuguese

Manicaland

How Portuguese trade developed in Mozambique during the 16th/17th Centuries prior to the establishment of the feiras in the Mutapa State

Mashonaland Central

Hubert John Antony Hervey (1859 – 1896)

Matabeleland South

Iron Mine Hill (Ntabasinsimbe) and the first casualty of the 1893 Matabele War

Midlands

Ivon Fry’s reminiscences of Bulawayo and Lobengula in 1888 – 89

Bulawayo

Jack Parsonson – War ace and one of Mashonaland Country District’s most colourful characters

Mashonaland West

James Dawson’s account of finding the remains of Allan Wilson and his patrol

Matabeleland North

Kadoma (formerly Gatooma) Steam Centre

Mashonaland West

Land and the British South Africa Company - the Renny-Tailyour and Lippert concessions

Harare

Letters from the Siege of Ladysmith by Edward Carey Tyndale-Biscoe

Harare

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather (1850 – 1928)

Harare

Lord Randolph Churchill’s visit to Rhodesia in 1891

Mashonaland West

Luanze Earthworks and Church

Mashonaland East

Major Arthur G. Leonard's journey by foot from Salisbury (now Harare) to Beira in October 1891.

Manicaland

Major Stabb’s hunting trip in 1875 to the Zambesi Valley via Gubulawayo

Matabeleland North

Mambo Rebellion Memorial – with three oral history accounts collected by Foster Windram in 1936 and 1938 concerning the killings at West’s store

Matabeleland North

Maramuca, a Portuguese Feira dating from 1660 - 1680

Mashonaland West

Mary Blackwood Lewis’s letters on her journey to Mashonaland from Beira 1897-1901

Manicaland

Mashona Rebellion / First Chimurenga 1896-7 graves at Old Marandellas (Ruzawi Cemetery)

Mashonaland East

Massapa (Baranda Farm) – an Afro-Portuguese Feira site in Mashonaland Central

Mashonaland Central

Matabele Thompson; his role in the Rudd Concession

Bulawayo

Mother Patrick’s Mortuary (1895)

Harare

Museum of Human Sciences

Harare

Mutare Museum

Manicaland

Mzilikazi's Grave

Matabeleland South

National Heroes Acre

Harare

National Railways of Zimbabwe Museum, Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe at Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Nurses Memorial

Manicaland

Nyunteya Cave & Grain Bins

Matabeleland South

Old Fort Hartley and the Cemetery at Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Old Umtali – the second site

Manicaland

Orton’s Drift over the Sebakwe River

Midlands

Penhalonga

Manicaland

Photographs taken by the Reverend F.H. Surridge during the Pioneer Column’s 1890 trek into Mashonaland

Masvingo

Pieter Lourens van der Byl’s grave at Mona Farm

Manicaland

Pilot Officer William (Bill) B Thomson – one of many aircrew who were part of the Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) and trained at Bulawayo to fly as Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR)

Bulawayo

Pioneer Cemetery / Providential Pass Memorial

Masvingo

Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukele, 1896)

Matabeleland South

Postal service in 1890 – 1892; the post-stations from Fort Tuli to Salisbury

Masvingo

Re-examining the events leading up to the ‘Victoria incident’

Masvingo

Rebellion days in Bulawayo: When the Matabele rose in 1896

Bulawayo

Reminiscences of Percy Durban Crewe of Nantwich Ranch, Hwange

Matabeleland North

Rhodes Nyanga Estate

Manicaland

Rhodes Nyanga Historical Exhibition

Manicaland

Rhodes Stables

Matabeleland South

Rhodes Summer-house

Matabeleland South

Rhodes first journey into Mashonaland in 1891 through Penhalonga

Manicaland

Rhodesian Air Training Group (RATG) – a high price was paid in young lives

Harare

Rhodes’ Apostles – who were they and what happened to them?

Harare

Rhodes’ Three Peace Indabas

Matabeleland South

Richard Frewen, the man who annoyed Lobengula and the consequent deaths of the Colonial government emissaries on their way to the Victoria Falls

Bulawayo

Rickshaws and rail-trolleys at Victoria Falls

Matabeleland North

Runde (formerly Lundi) River strip road

Masvingo

Selous House (near Esigodini)

Matabeleland South

Sentinel Ranch Dinosaur Fossils

Matabeleland South

Silver Queen II – the first aeroplane flight into Zimbabwe

Bulawayo

The 1893 Matabeleland campaign and the roles played by Jameson, Lobengula, Loch and Rhodes

Masvingo

The 1893 Occupation of Bulawayo by the Salisbury and Victoria Columns

Bulawayo

The 1896 siege of Belingwe, now Mberengwa as told by David Tyrie Laing

Midlands

The 1903 Ivel Agricultural Motor No 141 in the Mutare Museum; one of only seven that still exist today

Manicaland

The Adendorff trek and the planned invasion of Banyailand

Masvingo

The Battle of Shangani (called Bonko by the amaNdebele) on 25 October 1893

Matabeleland South

The Beira and Mashonaland Railway – the Contractor’s stories

Manicaland

The British South Africa Company

Harare

The British South Africa Company and the impact of early gold mining regulations on smallworkers

Midlands

The British South Africa Company – establishing an administration in the early days of the occupation of Mashonaland

Harare

The Charles Burrell Steam Traction Engine / Road Locomotive

Harare

The Hanging Tree

Bulawayo

The Hunter’s Road - followed on maps

Mashonaland West

The Jameson Raid

Bulawayo

The June 1896 Mazoe Patrol skirmish with detailed accounts from those besieged and their Mashona attackers

Mashonaland Central

The Matabele Campaign of 1893 - the march on Bulawayo

Bulawayo

The Matabele uprising or First Umvukela Indaba Site (Rhodes Indaba site)

Matabeleland South

The Mzilikazi Memorial

Matabeleland South

The National Archives

Harare

The Newton Commission conclusions on the ‘Victoria incident’

Masvingo

The Old Umtali Pioneer's Cemetery and the strange story of the death of Monty Bowden

Manicaland

The Paper House (including the National Mining Museum)

Midlands

The Pink Map; how credible were Portuguese claims to Mashonaland and Manicaland before 1890?

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march detailed on maps

Harare

The Pioneer Column’s march from Macloutsie to Mashonaland

Harare

The Planet Arcturus railway line

Mashonaland East

The Pongo Memorial (Matabele uprising, or First Umvukela, 1896) has now been vandalised

Matabeleland South

The Portuguese Feiras and trading settlements of the 16th – 17th century on the Northern Mashonaland Plateau and Manicaland

Mashonaland Central

The Rhodesia Air Training Group (RATG) 1940 – 1945

Harare

The Save River (formerly Sabi)

Manicaland

The Selous Road from Fort Salisbury to Old Mutare and beyond

Mashonaland East

The Siege of Deary’s Store at Abercorn June 21st – July 13th, 1896

Mashonaland Central

The Southern Column’s skirmish at the Singuesi river on 2 November 1893 revisited

Matabeleland South

The Victoria Cross (VC) medal recipients connected with this country

Mashonaland West

The Victoria Falls Bridge

Matabeleland North

The Wood-Chapman-Francis syndicate of concession seekers

Bulawayo

The Zeederberg Coach Company and the first passenger services into the country

Bulawayo

The arrival of the AmaNdebele in Matabeleland and the succession of King Lobengula

Matabeleland South

The build-up to the 1893 Matabele War

Masvingo

The decline of the Mutapa state c.1623 – c.1902

Mashonaland Central

The old Transport Road

Bulawayo

The ordeals in bringing the railway line from Beira to Umtali (now Mutare)

Manicaland

The part played by religion in the Mashona Rebellion (First Chimurenga) in 1896-7 as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7

Harare

The part played by religious factors in the 1896-7 Matabele Rebellion (Umvukela) as told by Terence Ranger in Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 and the shooting of the Mlimo

Bulawayo

The search for Willie Hartley’s grave

Mashonaland West

The story behind Derick Hoste who died of blackwater fever at Hartley Hills in 1893

Mashonaland West

The story of a Trooper’s experiences in the Imperial Yeomanry and Rhodesia Field Force during the second Boer War 1899 - 1902

Mashonaland East

The story of a nurse and authoress travelling on the Selous Road through Mashonaland in 1896 during the Mashona Rebellion or First Chimurenga

Mashonaland East

The victorious march of the Salisbury and Victoria Columns into Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Thomas Baines and the Hartley Hills goldfield

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1869 that resulted in a mineral concession granted by Lobengula and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 1

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Mashonaland in 1870 after Lobengula granted a verbal mineral concession and the first mining claim at Hartley Hills - Part 2

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to Matabeleland in 1871 to obtain a written mineral concession from Lobengula and his return through the Limpopo Valley - Part 3

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869 / 70 – background and travel by ox-wagon to Tati

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland in 1869/70: His first journey described in his diaries from Tati on 4 June 1869 until the 15 February 1870 (Vol 1)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His first journey described from 16 February 1870 to 9 January 1871 (Vol 2)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines journey to present-day Mashonaland: His second journey described from 16 May to 30 October 1871 (Vol 3)

Mashonaland West

Thomas Baines watercolours and sketches from the Natural History Museum (London) with the relevant text from The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines (1869-1872) edited by J.P.R. Wallis - Part 4

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and his first two hunting trips into Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1866 and 1867

Bulawayo

Thomas Leask (1839 – 1912) and “my last hunt” to Hartley Hills in 1870

Mashonaland West

Thomas Leask’s Life and Diaries describing Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860’s

Harare

Thomas Leask’s two journeys to the Zambezi in 1868 and 1869

Matabeleland North

Thomas Moodie’s Grave

Manicaland

Three oral history statements made in 1937 by amaNdebele warriors present at the killing of Allan Wilson and thirty-three other Europeans on 4 December 1893 at the Shangani River

Matabeleland North

Thuli Safari Area

Matabeleland South

Travel by Ox-wagon in the 1890’s – Lt-Col H. Vaughn-Williams recollections after 57 years

Matabeleland South

Travelling by coach in 1890 by Major A.G. Leonard

Matabeleland South

Vasco Fernandes Homem and the search for the Mutapa state’s fabled gold mines 1574-5

Mashonaland Central

Vere Stent’s recollections of Raaff’s Rangers and the Southern Column in 1893

Matabeleland South

Veterans of the 1893 Occupation of Matabeleland

Bulawayo

Were Lobengula and the amaNdebele tricked by the Rudd concession?

Bulawayo

Why Lobengula sent envoys to Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century

Bulawayo

Why did Portugal establish bases on the East African Coast, now Mozambique in the early sixteenth Century?

Mashonaland Central

William Finaughty (1843 – 1917) one of the great elephant hunters who knew both Mzilikazi and Lobengula and brought the two ship’s cannon now at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo.

Bulawayo

William Irwin, a casualty of the assault on Kunzwi's kraal, Mashonaland

Mashonaland East

Zimbabwe Military Museum

Midlands

Zimbabwe in antique maps of South Eastern Africa

Mashonaland East

Zimbabwe timeline

Mashonaland Central

Zinjanja Monument (formerly Regina Ruins)

Matabeleland South

‘Chimurenga’: The Shona Rising of 1896-7; a summary of David Beach’s article

Mashonaland East