Hugh Driver
Dr Hugh Driver gained an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a DPhil in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford, where his supervisor was the late Sir Michael Howard. He is the author of The Birth of Military Aviation: Britain 1903-1914 (Royal Historical Society, Studies in History, 1997), Lord Northcliffe and the Early Years of Rolls-Royce (Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, 1998) and a contributor to Putnam’s History of Aircraft, Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation before 1914 (Putnam, 2002). More recently he has begun to write on Anglo-South African history and has latterly published a translation from Afrikaans of Professor B.J. Liebenberg’s ground-breaking 1977 monograph Andries Pretorius, Voortrekker Leader in Natal, Blood River to Congella (Barksdale Books, 2020). He is resident in the UK.
Books
- Controlling the Frontier : Southern Africa 1806-1828, The Cape Frontier Wars and The Fetcani Alarm Author
