http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25442 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:13:13 GMT 2026-07-26T15:13:13Z https://https://oda.uni-obuda.hu:443/bitstream/id/c57e39e4-2e1c-45dd-8c4e-e9dfae300942/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25442 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25487 “That They, Shakespeare's People, Play the Role of the Barbarians Here” Szabó-Zsoldos, Gábor “We, abandoned Europeans, armed to the teeth, only have the pleasure of reading the news of the war left; but we are revelling in them, and woe to our poor newspapers if they do not accompany the freshly baked bun of our breakfast with even fresher news –from South Africa.” (Szigethy, 1901, p. I) These lines come from the foreword of Lajos Szigethy’s Anglo-Boer War recollections and capture the atmosphere and tremendous interest of contemporary Hungarian public opinion regarding a war in which Austria-Hungary was not directly involved and took place at a considerable distance from the country. There was particular interest in the Hungarian participants of the war, most of whom, like the Hungarian public, supported the cause of the Boer republics. How they viewed the enemy, i.e. the British, stands at the centre of the present paper. Special emphasis is put on the influence the pro-Boer narrative about the war that was popular in other European countries had on the ways the Hungarian veterans constructed their war reminiscences about the national characteristics, imperial aspirations, and armed forces of the enemy in their respective books, articles, and lectures. Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25487 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25486 The Hungarian Count, the Polish Major and the Slovenian War Horses in South Africa Scherman, Jean-Pierre The noble Hungarian Jankovics-Bésán family have long being renowned as influential breeders of Lipizzan horses. During the Second World War in 1944 with the advancing Soviet Red Army bearing down on the family stud farm then located at Oreglak in Hungary, Count Elemér Janković-Bésán de Pribér-Vuchin, decided to flee the farm. He, however, refused to leave behind his beloved horses and fled with eight of the animals, two stallions and six mares. After stops in Germany and England, the Count decided to relocate with his horses to the Natal midlands of South Africa, where he re-established his family stud farm. In 1951, during the Royal Agricultural Show in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Hungarian horse breeder by chance met a Polish horse trainer. Major Jerzy (George) Iwanowski (13 March 1907 – 28 May 2008) was a graduate of the College of Agriculture in Warsaw. After the Second World War, Iwanowski also decided to leave Europe and relocate to South Africa, where he established the Centaur Stables in Johannesburg. It is from this meeting of two European horse lovers on the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal that South Africa’s world-famous Lipizzaner horses are derived. Based exclusively on the high standards as established by the Spanish Riding School based in Vienna, Austria, South African Lipizzaner’s have been performing since 1957. The original riders were almost exclusively women, unlike their European counterparts. This was because in South Africa the Lipizzan horses that formed part of the original performing team were all privately owned by women who were able to donate their time and efforts to a non-profit organisation that did not really pay its riders to perform. Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25486 2023-02-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25485 A Review of: “Britain, Germany and Colonial Violence in South-West Africa, 1884–1919: The Herero and Nama Genocide” by Mads Bomholt Nielsen Pálfi, László Horst Drechsler made a revolutionary move when he explored the “Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany” a.k.a. Blue Book, written by the South African invaders of German South West Africa. The East German historian, whose book “Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft: der Kampf der Herero und Nama gegen den deutschen Imperialismus (1884–1915)“ meant a paradigmatic change in the research of German colonial history, since the socialist scholar was the first who declared that the German rule in South West Africa was a form of colonial guilt. Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25485 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25484 A review of: „Conflict and Peace in Western Sahara: The Role of the UN's Peacekeeping Mission (MINURSO) edited by János Besenyő, R. Joseph Huddleston, and Yahia H. Zoubir Schneider, Richárd Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14044/25484 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z