Kabir
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
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Maori being entertained by Egyptian kids
Official photograph of Maori troops at a camp in Egypt with two little boys who have come to visit the men. The children are at the centre of the image, saluting the camera, while the Maori men look…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Language
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Children, Egypt, Maori, Race
Swahili Notes of South African Private
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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Official Canadian photograph of wounded men examining their trophies
This photograph depicts wounded Canadian soldiers behind the Canadian advance east of Arras in September 1918. They are showing trophies to each other, including a pistol in the hand of the front and…
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Theme: Photograph
Cover of The Crisis, Special Soldiers Number
Special Soldiers Number of The Crisis, journal of the National Association of Colored People published in New York, June 1918. The journal was circulated widely, not only in the US, but also among…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
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Allies, Magazine, Race, Soldiers, United States
In Holland stands a house, YES - YES!!!
This postcard is based on an old Dutch song for children ‘In Holland stands a house’. Soldiers of all belligerent nations are pictured dancing around the Dutch Peace Palace, a symbol of the…
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Themes: Propaganda; Postcard; Neutrality
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Neutrality, Pacifism, Peace, postcard, The Netherlands
The Film World
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
Poems by Albert Verwey
A collection of poems written by the most famous Dutch poet Albert Verwey, translated into German and published by the internationally renowned German publishing house Insel Verlag in Leipzig in 1917.…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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cultural propaganda, Dutch, Europe, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Germany, Language, poet, The Netherlands, Translation
The Memoir of a West Indian Padre, 'From the Islands of the Sea'
The published account of a padre, Alfred Horner, who served with the 9th Battalion of the British West Indies Regiment, based on his diary and articles written for the Nassau Tribune. It was published…
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Themes: Race; Mobility; Memoirs
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Colonial, France, Great-Britain, Journey, Memory, Non-Combatant, Priest, Race, West Indies
The Discovery of Germany (by the Martians)
A clipping from the German newspaper Weltspiegel that was kept by the German embassy in Pera (part of Constantinople).
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands
Collection of Poems: Message from the East
Payam-i-Mashriq [Message from the East] is a collection of poems in Persian and Urdu by the twentieth-century Muslim poet and intellectual Mohammed Iqbal. Published in 1921, the collection was…
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Themes: Poem; Intellectual Exchange
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British India, Moslem world, Poem
Letters from Chempa Karam Pillai in Amsterdam to the Indian Independence Committee in Berlin
In August 1915, the British Indian revolutionary and German agent Chempa Karam Pillai (image 1) wrote several reports from Amsterdam to the German-sponsored Indian Independence Committee in Berlin. He…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Letter; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Japan, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, pamphlet, Siam
'The influence of the war on Dutch book production 1913-1920'
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
Britain Prepared
Excerpt providing information about the Dutch premiere of Britain Prepared, a Dutch advert, and a British advertising brochure. Film clip: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060023124
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, mobilisation, Neutrality
Cool heads!
Newspaper article by the Indonesian journalist Ratu Langie in the weekly 'De Indiër. Weekblad gewijd aan het geestelijk en maatschappelijk leven van Indië en Oost-Azië' ['The Indonesian. Weekly…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
Poster advertisement for the newspaper Die Islamische Welt
A poster advertising the German language journal Die Islamische Welt (The Islamic World), with a list of its contributors.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
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imperial strategy, Magazine, Moslem world, pro-German
Beautiful Holland
Promotional film from 1915 commissioned by the Dutch Tourism Office, showing the beauty of Dutch landscapes and traditional occupations of its…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
Der Neue Orient (The New Orient). Monthly newspaper on the political, economic, and spiritual life in the whole East
Der Neue Orient was one of the periodicals published by the Information Service for the East. As the table of contents shows, it reported on economic, political, cultural, and social developments in…
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Imperial Strategy
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German Revolutionary Program, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, mobilisation, newspapers, orientalism, orientalists, pan-Islamism, pow-camp, Propaganda
The Legend of Saint Barbara
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
La puissance militaire de la France
Dutch newspaper advert, French film poster of, and film excerpt of the official French propaganda documentary La puissance militaire de la France (1917) that demonstrated the military potential of…
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
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film propaganda, militarism, Neutrality
Newspaper article detailing the experience of Maori Troops in France
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
Hindostan and El Dschihad
Hindostan and El Dschihad were propaganda newspapers for South Asian, Caucasian, and North African prisoners of war in the Halbmondlager in Wünsdorf and the Weinberglager in Zossen. These periodicals…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Arabic, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Hindi, Jihad, Language, newspapers, official documents, orientalism, orientalists, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, religion, revolution, Russian, Tatar, Urdu
For Europe: An appeal from Holland to intellectuals of all nations
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
Image of Black-American dockers in Saint-Nazaire (France) engraved by Jean-Émile Laboureur
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
Knitting mania in the Netherlands
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