Emily Hobhouse helped expose the horrors of the Boer concentration camps.  A Free State was named after her, and briefly a submarine.
Her unused wedding veil hangs in the “Orange Women’s Society” in Bloemfontein, commemorating her work.

Emily Hobhouse helped expose the horrors of the Boer concentration camps.  A Free State was named after her, and briefly a submarine.

Her unused wedding veil hangs in the “Orange Women’s Society” in Bloemfontein, commemorating her work.

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