# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZxF_ZSIl9g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67082652-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/25fed40cef.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-19T12:16:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

She was not a soldier. Nor was her child. Yet around 26,000 Boer women and children died in British camps.

In 1900 Britain burned the farms and herded families into overcrowded camps — short of food, water and medicine. When Emily Hobhouse exposed it, she was branded a traitor. An all-women commission later proved her right.

#ForgottenHistory #BritishHistory #SocialHistory

## Stats

- **Views:** 2,103
- **Likes:** 114
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- **Comments:** 8

## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory

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