Van Onselen's works include :

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• Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia 1900-1933” published by Pluto Press in 1976”.

• “New Babylon and New Nineveh: Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914”.

• “Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867–1948”.

• “The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, A South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985 ”.

• “The Fox and the Flies; The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath”.

• “Masked Raiders; Irish Banditry in Southern Africa”.

• “Showdown at the Red Lion; The Life and Times of Jack McLoughlin, 1858-1910”.

• “Life and Times of Jack McLoughlin, 1859-1910”.

• “Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899”.