Empires Drifting Apart: South Africa and the Emergence of British–German Public Alienation (1894–1907)
German Historical Institute London Blog Introduction: An ‘Unwritten’ Anglo-German Alignment In 1890, Britain and Germany signed the Treaty of Heligoland, which regulated their respective colonial claims in sub-Saharan Africa. Members of the British press celebrated it as constituting a colonial marriage between the two nations. The notion of an ‘unwritten’…