The sketch shows the profile of Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi, a religious Tunisian-Algerian scholar and propagandist with the Ottoman Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa.
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Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, cultural propaganda, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Jihad, newspapers, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, religion, western front
A postcard picturing German prisoners in Algiers. On the reverse are words printed in poor Dutch: 'One can see from the look of them that they have not suffered from their treatment' ('Men kan hat hem…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Algeria, Camp, France, Germany, postcard, POWs, Propaganda, Soldiers
This satirical cartoon, published in the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag on 11 January 1915, ridicules the many Dutch women's committees that took care of the mobilized Dutch soldiers.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Gender
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mobilization, Netherlands, Neutrality
The pictures show Maurice Valette's documents as a soldier in the French army and as a prisoner of war in the German camp Rennbahn, near Münster.
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Themes: Photograph; Captivity
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newspapers, poet, POW, pow-camp, western front
War memoir by British medical officer. This book became a bestseller and went through several editions, shaping impressions of the war in East Africa in the minds of the British public.
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Themes: Race; Mobility; Memoirs
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Africa, Colonial soldiers, Empire, Indian Army, Memoir
The picture displays a group of prisoners of war (possibly recently captured) close to Ypres, one of the most embattled cities on the Western Front. The soldiers seem to belong to different branches…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, imperial strategy, Photograph, postcard, POW, Propaganda
This phonetically written letter by an Algerian prisoner of war is kept in the albums of Otto Stiehl. On the left it reads 'prizonier de gér 1 Bata 1 con nr 1093 Zosén Aleman'. On the right it…
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Themes: Postcard; Letter; Language; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, French, Halfmoon Camp, Letter, POW, pow-camp, western front
Magazine article combining a narrative of service for the British Empire with the First World War.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Memoirs
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Africa, Egypt, Empire, Labour, Magazine, Memory, Propaganda, Racism
An Italian propaganda film depicting the Germans as vandals trying to destroy ancient Roman civilisation and whose women were ready to fight for freedom to the bitter…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Gender; Film
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anti-German, film propaganda, Neutrality
The photograph shows a group of men and one woman standing on a stairway in front of a facade. In the background, chandeliers are visible. Sheikh Salih al-Sharif is standing in the first row, second…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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Algeria, anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, newspapers, Non-Combatant, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Refugees
Newspaper article by the Dutch writer Henri Borel on the entry of British and French colonial troops in the war. The article 'East and West in the War' was published in the colonial newspaper…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Colonial Troops, Dutch, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, internationalism, Race, The Netherlands, writer
Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality whilst being under foreign pressure to join the war, drawn by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands
Handwritten note from the back of a war diary by a white South African private who served in the East African campaign in 1916-17. It lists two dozen words in Swahili and their English translation.…
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In 1918 the Dutch poet and journalist Jan Greshoff compiled his newspaper articles and literary reviews in Latin Spring. Essays and Notes. These pieces had all been originally published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Gender
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anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands
Wide black-and-white shot of men from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, some on foot, some on camels, with their Egyptian guides in the desert, in front of the Sphinx and one of the Pyramids.
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Themes: Photograph; Mobility
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The Other, Tourism, Travel
Two pages of a German report from 1918 describing the books on offer at bookstores located within the train station in The Hague.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands, Translation
Cartoon by Dutch artist Albert Hahn, in which two 'uncivilized' black men read about the German atrocities in their newspaper The Jungle. The text reads: 'Are these Europeans not the people who send…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Civilization, imperial strategy, Race
Letter purportedly by two Christian prisoners of war interned in the Halfmoon camp requesting permission to go to church on Christmas Day in 1917. This forms part of Otto Stiehl's photographic…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Letter; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Halfmoon Camp, India, Letter, religion
Newspaper advert for the French propaganda film screened in the Netherlandshttp://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_FR/B_412.html
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality
Dutch newspaper advert promoting an Italian propaganda film. Film clip https://vimeo.com/85155924
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Italy, Neutrality
A photograph taken in the English camp at Groningen during World War I. Members of the British navy are depicted crafting picture frames from cigar boxes.
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Themes: Photograph; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Captivity
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Camp, Great-Britain, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The Netherlands
Propaganda postcard promoting Dutch neutrality by the Dutch painter Theo Molkenboer.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Dutch, Neutrality, postcard, Propaganda, The Netherlands
Achiel Van Walleghem, a local Catholic priest residing in Dickebusch and Reninghelst, just west of Ypres, kept a diary from August 1914 up until a few years after the war. With an inquisitive eye and…
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Dated 29 December 1916, this report by Lord Cecil from the British Foreign Office comprises evaluations of British propaganda conducted in both Allied and neutral countries and among Muslim…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Poem; Photograph; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Dutch East Indies, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, India, Java, Jihad, Muslims, Neutrality, newspapers, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands
In these two extracts from Au-dessus de la mêlée, Rolland first discusses the rise of the Dutch Anti-War Association in October 1914, then moves onto the Association's translated manifesto…
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Themes: Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Europe, internationalism, Language, Neutrality, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden