Contemporary travellers', journalistic and periodical writings (19th-early 20th c.)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Various contemporary authors
Coverage	1849-1916
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Cope (1989)	Contemporary periodicals and writings (Trollope in Fortnightly Review 1878; Robinson in Westminster Review 1870; Carlyle; Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute; The Standard)	1849-1878	Quoted to show Victorians equated civilisation with wage labour and racial attitudes hardened.
Houghton and Dagut (1972)	Eyewitness and travel literature on diamond and gold fields (Payton, Chapman, Boyle, Matthews, Steytler, Mathers, Glanville, Bellairs, Smith, Silver & Co. handbooks, etc.)	1870-1891	Descriptions of camp life, prices, labour, compounds, mining methods, company amalgamation and speculation.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Travellers' and journalistic accounts (Mathers 1888, Glanville 1888, Bellairs 1889, Fitzpatrick 1899, Bleloch 1901, Griffith 1903, Balfour Browne 1905, Fyfe 1911, Evans 1916)	1888-1916	Contemporary impressions used as illustrations of Kruger's policies, the war boom, labour experiments and land tenure.