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
Written account of 'Hollandais et Français' ['The Dutch and the French'], a lecture given by the Dutch professor of Romance languages Jean-Jacques Salverda de Grave at the Alliance Française society…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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cultural propaganda, Dutch, France, Language, nationalism, pro-French, Race, The Netherlands
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
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
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
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 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
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
Front page of a propaganda publication which contained portraits of 96 prisoners of war, which were taken in German prisoner-of-war camps in 1915. Also shown are a cover of the Dutch translation of…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Captivity
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anti-British, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Photograph, Propaganda, Race, 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
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
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
Cartoon by Dutch artist Albert Hahn, in which two 'uncivilized' black men read about the German atrocities in their newspaper The Jungle. The text reads: 'Are these Europeans not the people who send…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy
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cartoon, Civilization, imperial strategy, Race
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
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
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
An interior of the exotically decorated Music Room in the Brighton Pavilion. The room has been converted into a hospital ward and is lined with metal-framed beds. All the wounded are Indian soldiers…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda
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Allies, Colonial Troops, Hospital, Indian Army
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
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
Cover letter and three excerpts from Dutch newspapers highlighting the efforts of German propaganda to influence the Dutch press.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Netherlands
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
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
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
Five photographs taken by the Alfieri Picture Service showing African, African American, and West Indian servicemen at the Coloured Soldiers and Sailors Club, London 1919. The images show that black…
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Themes: Race; Photograph