ABSTRACT
The Boer War The Boer War, for obvious reasons, did not impinge on British society to anything like the degree of later wars. Nonetheless, it did demand and achieve the augmenting of the regular army through volunteers. This, along with the contemporary popularity of jingoistic music hall songs, the spontaneous celebrations associated with the relief of Ladysmith or Mafeking, the disruption of pro-Boer meetings by 'jingo mobs', and the Unionist success in the 'Khaki Election' of the summer of 1900, has been seen as evidence of strong support for imperialism by at least a substantial section of the working classes (41, 52, 54).
