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
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
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
An official photograph depicting a New Zealand soldier with two small children on Lemnos.
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Gender
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
This newspaper article, published in a major New Zealand daily newspaper, describes a confrontation between a group of Maori (New Zealand’ s indigenous people) and the police officers who had been…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Mobility
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
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
The propaganda postcard ‘The Empire’s Flag’ was sent to many British colonies and protectorates in 1916 and 1917. On the obverse, it bears an image of the Union Jack and, on the reverse, a poem…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Poem; Mobility; Language; Imperial Strategy
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Arabic, Chinese, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, Great-Britain, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, Language, loyalty, Malay, postcard, Urdu, Wellington House
Pamphlet produced by either the Indian National Party or the German-sponsored Indian Independence Committee in Berlin and published in 1915. To read the original text, please click on the source…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Dutch East Indies, German Revolutionary Program, India, Neutrality, orientalists, pamphlet, The Netherlands
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 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
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 nurse's autograph book, from an anonymous source, which includes the above cartoon of a nurse being frightened by one of her patients, an Arab man. The caption reads:
Little Nurse Muffet
Sat on…
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The picture shows German officers and a native soldier of the Schutztruppe in German Southwest Africa, modern-day Namibia. The force is apparently defending a fortification. The officers and the…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Colonialism, colonies, Germany, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, mobilisation, Mobility, painting, postcard
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
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
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
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
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
Black and white photograph of Maori troops from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force performing a haka at a sports day at a camp in Wiltshire. Wiltshire, specifically Salisbury Plain, was where the New…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Mobility
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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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
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
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