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'Zulu' shows that even history’s darkest moments can inspire rousing cinema If you haven't yet seen this dignified portrait of heroism, seek it out soon – before somebody bans it for its “colonialism” Michael Caine in Zulu Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy The recent ludicrous decision by the Royal Collection to label Lady Butler’s 1880 painting of the defence of Rorke’s Drift with the warning that it has links to “colonialism and violence” prompted me to do something I hadn’t for 40 years, which was to watch the film of this stirring episode in history, Zulu. S...
19 Dec 2020 A picture in the Queen’s collection celebrating the Battle of Rorke’s Drift — one of the proudest moments in British military history — has been given a trigger warning following a Black Lives Matter style review. For the last 140 years, the painting by Lady Butler, The Defence of Rorke’s Drift, has been left to speak for itself. It shows red-coated, pith-helmeted soldiers heroically defending their mission station redoubt as vast hordes of Zulu warriors — off-screen — threaten to overrun them and disembowel them with their assegais. But now, at the insistence of th...
Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, secure items belonging to Rorke's Drift hero John Chard VC | Updated: 13:46, 18 December 2020 A museum has won its bid to secure a set of artefacts belonging to a man portrayed in the classic war film Zulu. The Royal Engineers Museum, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, purchased three items from a collection owned by Lt John Chard VC at an auction in London yesterday. Lt. Col. John Chard VC. Picture: RE Museum The first lot secured was a set of surveying and drawing instruments enclosed in a wooden case, owned by John Chard which relate to his time in Chat...
The aftermath of Rorke's Drift: Battlefield where British garrison held off 4,000 Zulu warriors is seen in 141-year-old photographs belonging to Lieutenant Chard who led the famous defence Photographs show the aftermath of the 1879 battle in which a British garrison fended off 4,000 Zulu warriors They also show scenes from Zululand and the aftermath of an earlier British debacle at Battle of Isandlwana Lieutenant John Chard compiled the album following the battle - later immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu