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
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
This poem was written by the Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882). It was published in the first issue of a journal which had been published in Urdu under the title (achwat/achuwwat)…
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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Imperial Strategy
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu
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
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
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