This photograph depicts a group of Australian and allied soldiers, likely French colonial Zouave troops. It was taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France, sometime during the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph
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Allies, Australia, Colonial soldiers, France, Soldiers
Book cover of Frederik van Eeden's Dutch translation of Rabindranath Tagore's English version of the songs and poems by the poet Kabir.
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Themes: Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Tagore, Van Eeden
The voice of the Russian soldier Levon Altunov was recorded in a prisoner-of-war camp in Chemnitz on 16 June 1916. The recording, inventoried as PK 325, is of a song in Armenian that speaks of…
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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
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Armenian, Colonial Troops, Folksong, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Race, Sound Recording
In this poem, the Dutch poet Albert Verwey criticises the execution of Boer rebel Josef Fourie by the pro-British government of South Africa. Verwey defends the rights of the Dutch-speaking Afrikaners…
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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, Boer war, Dutch, Great Netherlands, Poem, poet, Race, South Africa, The Netherlands
A postcard showing the flags of France, Belgium, Great Britain, Russia, and Servia (sic) planted in the turf.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
Satirical cartoon displaying political dangers to Dutch territorial integrity
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Neutrality, Propaganda
This June 1916 cover of the German sponsored Dutch magazine De Toorts (The Torch) shows how a French woman tears Flanders away from the Dutch king Willem I in 1830, the year in which Belgium became…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
A catalogue listing those books available in the Netherlands in 1916 and books published in 1916-17, with an introduction by D. Smit about the Dutch book market during the first years of the war.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Dutch book market, The Netherlands
German propaganda film from 1914 with Dutch subtitles http://filmportal.de/video/ihr-unteroffizier
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Netherlands, Neutrality
'Trench art', a generic term used to describe folk art created in the context of war, has only very recently drawn the attention of academic scholars. These objects can take any form but most common…
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Theme: Language
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
Page from the war diary of Peter Buck, one of the few Maori officers. The selected page, written at Armentières, describes the occasion of a Maori haka and how it was received.
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Themes: Race; Diary
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Anthropologist, Diary, France, Maori, Officer
An article from The Times (London) describing the experiences of Maori soldiers in France. The article describes Maori troops singing a translated version of 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'. The…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Language
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Colonial Troops, France, Maori, Music, Translation
This engraving is from a set of works made by the French artist Jean-Émile Laboureur in the harbour of Saint-Nazaire, France where he was assigned as an interpreter to the American Army in 1917. The…
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Theme: Race
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Drawing, Exchange, Interpreter, Labour, United States
Postcard depicting a mural in a pavilion from the exhibition De Vrouw 1813-1913 (The Woman 1813-1913), held in Amsterdam in 1913.
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Gender
An official photograph depicting a New Zealand soldier with two small children on Lemnos.
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Gender
A Dutch film magazine, established by Belgian refugees but taken over and financed by the German embassy in the summer of 1918.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, German, Neutrality, The Netherlands
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
Cover page and inside pages from one issue of The Kia Ora Coo-Ee, a magazine produced by Australian and New Zealand troops in Egypt and Palestine in 1918. The cover shows one Anzac soldier being…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility
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Anzac, Colonial Troops, Egypt, Magazine
The article deals with book production in the Netherlands in the years 1913-1920.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Dutch book market, The Netherlands
A selection of official photographs taken by Ernest Brooks of a sports day in France. Men of the South African Native Labour Corps are seen performing a 'Zulu war dance', watched by officers and men…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Mobility
The receipt is confirmation of a payment made in 1919. This was the final instalment (amounting to 7,500 fl.) of the total sum of 27,500 guilders, paid to the Dutch book dealer Bernard Mensing (whose…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Propaganda, The Netherlands
A special wartime edition of the journal Indian Review, described by the Madras-based editor G. A. Natesan as 'A comprehensive and authentic account of the War with numerous illustrations, portraits,…
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Theme: Newspapers & Magazines
The photo shows a group of North African prisoners of war, two prisoners of unknown origin, and an officer, all in front of barracks. The prisoners are arranged in a way that shows them to be…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, Propaganda, The Other
The picture shows a number of people helping to store the hay in a barn. On the right, an elderly man supervises. On the left, a man, presumably a French prisoner of war, holds a scythe and watches…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Captivity
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Labour, painting, Personal Encounters, postcard, POW, The Other