The picture displays a group of prisoners of war (possibly recently captured) close to Ypres, one of the most embattled cities on the Western Front. The soldiers seem to belong to different branches…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-French, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, imperial strategy, Photograph, postcard, POW, Propaganda
Documentary made in 1916 showing a large group of Belgian refugees - women, men and children - in a camp in the Netherlands performing their daily activities…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Mobility; Film; Captivity
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Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands, Neutrality
A series of postcards signed by Em. Dupuis (probably the French illustrator Emile Dupuis) portraying women from different Allied regions.
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Themes: Postcard; Gender
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Allies, France, Gender, postcard, Propaganda, Race
These three drawings made by Ganga Ram Gurung in spring 1917 in the Halfmoon camp are preserved in one of the photo albums of Otto Stiehl at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin. They depict…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Imperial Strategy; Captivity
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anti-colonialism, Halfmoon Camp, Hindu, imperial strategy, India, painting, POW
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
Book cover of Frederik van Eeden's Dutch translation of Rabindranath Tagore's English version of the songs and poems by the poet Kabir.
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Themes: Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Tagore, Van Eeden
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
This map of the world was produced in 1916 by Wellington House, the official British War Propaganda Bureau in London. The map aimed to demonstrate the ‘world dominance’ of the Allies, as it…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Language; Imperial Strategy
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Arabic, Belgium, Chinese, English, France, Great-Britain, imperial strategy, Language, Malay, Muslims, Propaganda, Race, Wellington House
In 1914, a war journal titled Indian Ink: Splashes from Various Pens was launched in India, edited by Everard Digby and published and printed by Messrs Thacker, Spink and Co. in Calcutta. Published…
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Themes: Race; Newspapers & Magazines
This photograph depicts a group of Australian and allied soldiers, likely French colonial Zouave troops. It was taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France, sometime during the…
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Themes: Race; Photograph
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Allies, Australia, Colonial soldiers, France, Soldiers
Dutch newspaper advertisement about the official British war documentary.Dutch critic's article about the London premiere of The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of Tanks. Film…
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Film
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film propaganda, militarism
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 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
This cover image from Die Woche published on 11 January 1916 shows a sketch of Sheikh Salih al-Sharif al-Tunisi. He was a religious North African scholar who worked as a propagandist, advocating…
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Themes: Religion; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Intellectual Exchange
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anti-colonialism, anti-French, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, imperial strategy, Jihad, Muslims, Non-Combatant, orientalism, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Personal Encounters, POW, Propaganda, religion
An official photograph depicting a New Zealand soldier with two small children on Lemnos.
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Gender
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
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
Ganga Ram was one of approximately 1,000 South Asians in German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War. Fighting at the Western Front, he was taken prisoner and brought to Germany. South…
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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Captivity
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anti-British, anti-colonialism, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Germany Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, POW, pow-camp, religion
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
On 24 January 1915, the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden published a letter written by his close friend, the French writer Romain Rolland, in the Dutch weekly De Amsterdammer. In his letter to van…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Letter; Intellectual Exchange
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Europe, French, internationalism, open letter, public intellectual, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden, writer
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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Wide black-and-white shot of men from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, some on foot, some on camels, with their Egyptian guides in the desert, in front of the Sphinx and one of the Pyramids.
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Themes: Photograph; Mobility
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The Other, Tourism, Travel
French propaganda film which was screened in the Netherlands and in the Dutch East Indies. Film clipping and newspaper adverts from colonial…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, France
An official photograph of a Maori forester interacting with a local French woman in March 1917.
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Gender
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Gender, Language, Race
Telegram from the British Consulate in Rotterdam to the Foreign Office requesting 500 portraits of Lord Kitchener.
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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality
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Neutrality, Propaganda