ABSTRACT
The activities of correspondents reporting the Boer War have been the subject of some valuable individual studies by historians. But attempts to place reporting of the war in any wider context have focused almost exclusively on the reception of the message in Britain and the behaviour of newspapers as institutions. In the history of war reporting the Boer War has fallen between two stools, as either a footnote to the nineteenth-century colonial campaigns, or as irrelevant to the issues of twentieth-century war, being dismissed in quite literally less than a sentence by the standard histories of the subject. This may be in part because major correspondents from the Boer War rarely reported the First World War, exceptions being Henry Nevinson and the veteran American, Richard Harding Davis. 1
