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
These photographs were taken at a commemoration event on 1 August 2014. The municipality of the small town Zossen, the Evangelical Church, together with inhabitants and guests came together at the…
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Themes: Religion; Photograph; Mobility; Captivity
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Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, English, German Revolutionary Program, Halfmoon Camp, Hindi, imperial strategy, Jihad, Language, Memory, Muslims, orientalism, pan-Islamism, religion, Tatar
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
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
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
A translation of the seminal First World War memoir written by Bakary Diallo, a Pullo soldier from Senegal who fought for France in the war. Diallo shares his life story, including his childhood in…
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Themes: Race; Mobility; Memoirs
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Africa, colonial intellectual, Colonial Troops, France, Memoir, Memory
This story narrated by the Indian soldier Faijaz Ali, born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan), was recorded on 30 March 1917 in the Wünsdorf camp. It tells of a sick king, who has a fish bone stuck in…
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Themes: Recording; Language; Captivity
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Colonial Troops, Fairy Tale, Halfmoon Camp, Hindustani, imperial strategy, Mobility, POW, pow-camp, Punjabi, Race, Sound Recording
An article from The Times (London) describing the experiences of Maori soldiers in France. The article describes Maori troops singing a translated version of 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'. The…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Language
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Colonial Troops, France, Maori, Music, Translation
Documentary film showing production processes in the Royal Candle Factory in Gouda in the Netherlands…
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, nationalism, Neutrality, The Netherlands
A selection of official photographs taken by Ernest Brooks of a sports day in France. Men of the South African Native Labour Corps are seen performing a 'Zulu war dance', watched by officers and men…
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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Photograph; Mobility
An official photograph depicting a New Zealand soldier with two small children on Lemnos.
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Themes: Race; Photograph; Mobility; Gender
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
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
A clipping from the German newspaper Weltspiegel that was kept by the German embassy in Pera (part of Constantinople).
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Film
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film propaganda, Germany, Neutrality, newspapers, The Netherlands
Brochure advertising a collection of pictures from wartime Belgium to Dutch cinema managers.
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Themes: Propaganda; Photograph; Neutrality; Intellectual Exchange; Film; Captivity
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Belgian refugees, Belgium, film propaganda, Netherlands
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 satirical cartoon, published in the newspaper Het Nieuws van den Dag on 11 January 1915, ridicules the many Dutch women's committees that took care of the mobilized Dutch soldiers.
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Themes: Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Gender
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mobilization, Netherlands, Neutrality
The only eyewitness account from a member of the Chinese Labour Corps that has been translated into a western language, the memoir of Gu Xingqing is a remarkable and important document. Even if Gu did…
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Dutch brochure advertising the French propaganda masterpiece Mères françaises, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
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Themes: Propaganda; Neutrality; Gender; Film
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anti-German, film propaganda, France, Neutrality, pro-French
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 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