In 1918 the Dutch poet and journalist Jan Greshoff compiled his newspaper articles and literary reviews in Latin Spring. Essays and Notes. These pieces had all been originally published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Gender
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anti-German, Dutch, essay, France, Germany, Latin, nationalism, Neutrality, Race, The Netherlands
A drawing of interned British Indian soldiers with turbans and beards peeling potatoes in Townley Hall, The Hague.
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Themes: Race; Neutrality; Mobility; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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Camp, Great-Britain, India, Neutrality, POWs, Soldiers, The 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Newspaper article by the most famous Indonesian anti-colonial writer and revolutionary Ernest Douwes Dekker on the duties and loyalties of Dutch colonials. The article 'Our Duty' was published in the…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonial soldiers, Dutch East Indies, loyalty, Neutrality, newspapers, pro-German, socialism, The Netherlands
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
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
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
In this poem, René de Clercq, one of the most popular Flemish poets of the era, celebrates his allegiance to the 'Great Netherlands'. During the war he took part in the German propaganda policy to…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Poem; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
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Belgium, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, Flemish activism, Great Netherlands, Poem, South Africa, The Netherlands
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
In this report of 18 March 1917, the French envoy Henri Allizé to The Hague listed all pan-Islamic propaganda printed by German officials in the Netherlands and circulated to the British and French…
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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy
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anti-colonialism, Dutch, Dutch East Indies, France, German Revolutionary Program, Malay, Muslims, official documents, pamphlet, pan-Islamism, Propaganda, revolution, The Netherlands
In this report addressed to the German Foreign Office, the anti-colonial Indonesian writer and politician Ernest Douwes Dekker (image 1) describes his secret mission to travel from Rotterdam to…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Berlin Indian Independence Committee, colonial intellectual, Dutch East Indies, Ernest Douwes Dekker, German Revolutionary Program, Germany, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, India, Java, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
Cover and extracts from Bei uns in Deutschland (Brussels, 1919), First World War memoirs of the Flemish author Ernest Claes, based on his time in a German POW camp in Erfurt.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Mobility; Memoirs; Language; Intellectual Exchange; Imperial Strategy; Diary; Captivity
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Belgium, Camp, Flamenpolitik, Flemish, France, Germany, Memoir, Muslims, Personal Encounters, Soldiers, writer
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