Cover and extracts from In the Light of the Flame of War, an essay on the meaning of the war by the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden, based on his lectures given in late 1914 and 1915 and published in…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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essay, internationalism, Neutrality, Pacifism, public intellectual, The Netherlands, Van Eeden
Published in 1916, the novel Greenmantle was a wartime bestseller written by the English author John Buchan who also worked as a high-ranking propaganda official at the British propaganda office,…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, Camp, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, novel, orientalism, Propaganda, South Africa, Wellington House
Sketches by the French war artist Paul Sarrut, who was stationed at the Western Front.
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Theme: Race
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Colonial Troops, Drawing, France, Indian Army, western front
A collection of objects and papers, including a dog-tag (to identify the injured), a photograph of a young European woman, a ‘Book of Friendship’ possibly given by the same lady (signed as…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Gender
In 1914, a war journal titled Indian Ink: Splashes from Various Pens was launched in India, edited by Everard Digby and published and printed by Messrs Thacker, Spink and Co. in Calcutta. Published…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
The picture shows a wooden shelter surrounded by various men of colour, who wear different types of uniforms. Two of the men hold rifles, while others are sitting around a wooden object. The whole…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
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Colonialism, cultural propaganda, imperial strategy, Mobility, Photograph, postcard, The Other
Editorial piece reflecting on the West Indies and their contribution to the war written by William Galwey Donovan, the managing editor and a political activist.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility
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
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
Published account of the arrival of the second contingent of the British West Indies Regiment. Published by The Daily Gleaner, a Jamaican newspaper.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Gender; Diary
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West Indies
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
This second part of the poem 'For my Fatherland' is written by the poet Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, a Javanese prince. He was the first Indonesian poet to write Dutch. During the war, he was introduced to…
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Themes: Race; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Imperial identity, Java, nationalism, poet, Tagore
Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) was a young British doctor and aspiring author who volunteered for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. As a medical officer, he served in the conquest of German…
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A Victory Parade was held in London on 19 July 1919 and soldiers were brought from India to participate in the parade in a show of imperial strength and unity. In the first image, Gurkhas from the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility
Short review on the book by H.J.P.A. Kiersch Het Pangermanisme en de oorlog, which was published in Amsterdam by the publishing house Van Holkema en Warendorf.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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cultural propaganda, Dutch book market, Germany, Propaganda, The Netherlands
French propaganda film showing colonial troops in Belgium http://www.filmportal.de/video/zouaves-d-afrique-dans-les-flandres-belges
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility; Imperial Strategy; Film
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film propaganda, Neutrality, orientalism
Excerpt from Jean-Pierre Laurens’ album of 18 lithographs devoted to the camp of Wittenberg in Germany, in which he spent several years as a prisoner. This image shows a confrontation between German…
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Themes: Race; Captivity
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Camp, Captivity, Colonial Troops, Drawing, Germany, Internment
A watercolour painting by James McBey, a British war artist, as commissioned by Wellington House. The image was later transferred to the Department and Ministry of Information and then to the Imperial…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility
Newspapers advertisements from Dutch colonial newspapers about the official British war documentary The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of the Tanks (1917).
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
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colonies, film propaganda, Netherlands, pro-British
Short German documentary showing religious celebrations at the end of Ramadan in the internment camps in Wünsdorf near Zossen. https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/2535
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film; Captivity
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Camp, film propaganda, Germany, Muslims, The Netherlands
Open letters from the Egyptian revolutionary Dr Rifat to the German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg published and commented on by an anonymous anti-colonial journalist in the Dutch-Indonesian weekly…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, German Revolutionary Program, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, pro-German, Propaganda
In 1916, the female, Jewish, Dutch writer Carry van Bruggen published the essay ‘Patriotism, Love for Humanity and Education' as a scathing complaint against the rise of patriotism in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Gender, internationalism, Jewish, nationalism, The Netherlands, writer
This private photograph comes from an album of a British soldier who served in the East African campaign. It depicts a local civilian being held by an Indian sepoy for the duration of the photograph.…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility
In this report of 20 December 1916, the British Foreign Office outlines its propaganda activities in the Muslim world. The list demonstrates the global scope of British-led ‘Muslim propaganda’…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-German, Arabic, cartoon, Dutch East Indies, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Java, Language, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, Race, The Netherlands, Wellington House
Film review by the Dutch playwright and journalist Henri van Wermeskerken published in De Sumatra Post on 21 April 1917.
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
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Dutch East Indies, film propaganda, German Revolutionary Program, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands