The postcard depicts a Zouave soldier in full uniform, resting on his rifle and gazing into the distance. The soldier’s facial expression conveys confidence, reliability, and strength, assuring the…
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Themes: Race; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy
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Algeria, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, colonies, France, imperial strategy, mobilisation, postcard
Dutch manifesto of the Holland section of the League of Neutral States directed at American citizens in December 1916.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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anti-German, Neutrality, Pacifism, Propaganda, South Africa, The Netherlands, United States
The postcard is suggestive of the wide range of people fighting for the Allied armies. The mix of people - their uniforms, their skin tone, their facial expressions, and their postures - in front of a…
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Themes: Race; Postcard; Mobility; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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imperial strategy, orientalism, painting, postcard, POW, pow-camp, Propaganda, Racism, The Other
The first fragment contains the report of 4 May 1916 written by the French envoy to The Hague Henri Allizé to the French Ministry of Colonies regarding German incitement of Indonesian Muslims. The…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, French, German Revolutionary Program, Jihad, Muslims, newspapers, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, revolution, The Netherlands
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
This is the last issue of the soldier newspaper published by and for the members of the 'Motor Transport Depot' in Dar es Salaam in December 1918.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
The autograph book of a Nurse Burton who served at Seaford Hospital in Sussex (pictured). The book includes entries by the West Indian patients whom she looked after, along with a sketch of the…
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Themes: Race; Poem; Photograph; Gender
Anti-British pamphlet, reprinted in the Dutch East Indies by German propagandists.
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonies, German propaganda
German advertisement for Messter-Film GmbH, which was part of the government-sponsored Ufa concern. The advertisement was published in the Dutch film magazine De Bioscoop in early 1918.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, Race, 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
The postcard shows a group of prisoners of war and their guards in the propaganda camp in Wünsdorf. They are shown supposedly in their leisure time; some of them doing a three-legged race, others are…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Captivity
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colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Photograph, postcard, POW, pow-camp
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
This photograph captures a rare encounter between colonial prisoners of war and the German public. A group of prisoners of war are escorted by German soldiers through the streets of Zossen-Wünsdorf,…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, India, Mobility, Photograph, postcard, POW, The Other, western front
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
This song was recorded in the Halfmoon camp in Wünsdorf in 1918. Biographical details of the singer are in the PK-files. A translation was produced by Samir El-Moussati in 2014.
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Themes: Recording; Race; Propaganda; Captivity
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Arabic, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Language, POW, pow-camp, Sound Recording
Plan written by the Indonesian journalist, translator and writer Raden Mas Sosrokartono to counter German imperial strategies in Asia, in particular the German journal Der Neue Orient. Armed with this…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, anti-German, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, France, German Revolutionary Program, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, loyalty, newspapers, Propaganda, The Netherlands
Extract from a regular section of the newspaper The West Indian, 'From Our Boys', published in Grenada.
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Letter
http://bit.ly/2fbkqHp A film of one contingent of the Egyptian Labour Corps (ELC) from their recruitment in Egypt to their arrival and work in France. Please click on the link to watch the film.The…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Mobility; Film
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Colonial Troops, Egypt, film propaganda, Labour, Personal Encounters, Race
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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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
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
Extract and photograph from the diary of Alison Mullineaux, a Canadian woman who travelled to Europe and served as a nurse's aid in the French Service de Santé. Both the diary extract and the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Gender; Diary
Front page of consular correspondence on the distribution of British film propaganda in the Netherlands and its colonies.
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
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colonies, film propaganda, Netherlands, pro-British
John Brown's personal photograph album, including photographs of Naga Hills tribesmen in traditional dress on the deck of HMS Kingstonian in the Mediterranean, en route from India to France (May…
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility
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Egypt, Indian Army, Labour, Photograph
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