Siege of Mafeking

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• This website exists as a resource for those interested in the Siege of Mafeking from October 1899 to May 1900.
• It is not in itself a body of knowledge about the Siege, but a directory of all available information.
• It includes probably the most exhaustive list of resources - publications, private letters and diaries - ever published.

(The spelling of 'Mafeking' on this Site is the way the name was spelt at the time of the Siege. Readers should note that, historically, there are several other spellings and that the modern town is now called Mafikeng.)

About the Author The Siege of Mafeking and the Mafeking Register are the work of Colin Walker. My researches into the Siege came about because of a deep interest in 'The Hero of Mafeking' and my lifetime association with the Scout Movement, in the Scout Counties of the Soke of Peterborough, Derbyshire, North Yorkshire and Central Yorkshire. I resigned as Chairman of Central Yorkshire Scout County when I retired from my work as a Primary School Headteacher in Wakefield in 2000, but am still an active member of the Wakefield Scout Fellowship.		Sections
Development In my retirement with my friend Mike Ryalls, I started the award-winning Scouting Milestones Scout History Website. The two areas of research - Scouting and the Siege of Mafeking - are both central to the life of Lord Baden-Powell and come together on the Scouting Milestones Website in a definitive article on the Mafeking Cadets.	Objectives My research into the all aspects of the Siege is not relevant to the general history of Scouting and it is for that reason that I have initiated these pages. I hope that they will generate mutually helpful correspondence with fellow enthusiasts, historians and family genealogists.