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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's ()

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's ()

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (2)/ Paula Joelsons

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (2)/ Paula Joelsons

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (3)

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (3)

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Paula Joelsons

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (3)

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (3)

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Paula Joelsons

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (2)

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's (2)

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's.

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Propaganda on women's suffrage from 1900's.

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anti irish sentiment.Still goes on today

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Victorian Bouquet - posted by C. LeVering

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Victorian Bouquet - posted by C. LeVering

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"A rare collection of exotic odours culled from the flora of the British Empire." It's quite lovely, you can smell the propaganda. :)

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The Canadian Mountie uniform mimics the British military uniform of the 19th century. Cultural imperialism at its finest

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Published in the interwar years, an extremely racist period, this poster might have aimed at justifying the brutality of colonialism. The message conveyed is that the victory of civilization over the savage will bear fruit. Black Africans are arguably compared to apes.

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What young man could resist joining the servie after seeing this?

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What young man could resist joining the servie after seeing this?

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World War 2 poster  depicting the "free world" marching for victory against the fascists. The label on the right reads various European Countries, USA, USSR & China.  The label on the left reads 1st row Britain, Canada , Australia, New Zealand, 2nd row  Southern Rhodesia, Newfoundland, South Africa , 3rd row India, 4th row the Colonial Empire!

This sort of propaganda  served the British establishment to promote unity with Britain in the colonies, amongst the colonies & within Britain.

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The primitive Africans and the superior British with their Imperial airways

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added by Se Murphy

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DID THE ENGLISH THINK THEMSELVES SUPERIOR TO OTHER PEOPLES/RACES?  Iris Jane Phillips

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DID THE ENGLISH THINK THEMSELVES SUPERIOR TO OTHER PEOPLES/RACES?  Iris Jane Phillips

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These pages are reproduced from a children's book of knowledge of the early 1940s - The Golden Pathway published by the International University Society and aimed at children age 5-12 years. I think it answers the question.

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The royal visit to South Africa, great propoganda

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The royal visit to South Africa, great propoganda

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Now I wonder what is being projected here?

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A dominant Empire controlling the rebellious Boers and only allowing self government in the Empire;s terms

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Added by Vivienne Hemingway

This is from the People's History Museum and shows a vision of Imperial Trade from 1910.

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How very unPC today - affluent whites puffing on their pipes while jolly natives bounce on a well-laden cart of tobacco - the bounty & beneficence of Empire!

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Artist/Maker: Pape, Frank Role in production: Artist Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom Date: 1928 Accession Number: 1935.697 Medium / Material: ink/paper, printed Support: paper Technique: lithography Description Two figures in the foreground stand in the shade smoking pipes, one observing the scene in front of them, the other looking back to the viewer.

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added by Tavis Reddick

The text of this book of stories is available from Project Gutenberg.

There is a short story called "A Christmas with Australian Blacks" which I find difficult to describe.

The language goes from:

"How would it do, then, to give a big Christmas feast to the blacks?" he hazarded.

"Do you think she would like that?" I asked doubtfully. "Remember how awfully dirty and savage-looking they are."
and quickly descends from there.

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The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various

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Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.

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Although similar to its more illustrious 1924 counterpart, the Empire Timber Exhibition was made entirely out of wood.

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This item is an example of a temperance oath from the 1920s in Canada. Children took the oath in the form of a pledge to the British flag.

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'Cyprus' by Keith Henderson 1929 for the Empire Marketing Board.

No idea what it's trying to say, I just liked it as a poster

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A bizarre way to sell a product, showing British soldiers fighting?

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"Huntley and Palmers are identifying their product with the exotic and aristocratic pursuit of big game hunting in India. The master servant relationship is abundantly clear as the power and importance of the participants is emphasised". http://britishempire.co.uk/media/advertising/huntleypalmerspack.htm

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In the world of biscuits, that is.

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London, 1924

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Unless we want to invade your country and kill your people...

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See the World, (kill people) & get paid for it!

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"One Flag, One Empire"

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Tea from India

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Colonial Progress Brings Home Prosperity'

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Colonial Progress Brings Home Prosperity'

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Two 1931 Empire Marketing Board posters by Adrian Allinson from a series called 'Colonial Progress Brings Home Prosperity'. These posters would have been displayed Dec 1930 - Jan 1931. They were part of a promotion of the Colonial Development Fund established under the 1929 Colonial Development Act to encourage development in the colonies. The posters were intended to suggest that the fund had clear benefits for trade with the home country as well as the colonies. The impetus for the Act and the fund had been to help pacify growing unrest in the colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
They demonstrate the central importance of strong reliable types, unafraid of getting their shirt off or wearing a pith helmet, when you want to get things done.

(Sorry the second image is cropped the caption reads 'East African Transport -New Style')

Chris Bastock

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Say no foreign lamb and butter.

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Artist/Maker: Cooper, R T Role in production: Artist Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom Date: n/a Accession Number: 1935.737 Medium / Material: ink/paper, printed Support: paper Technique: lithography Description Shop keepers and customers in period dress with their attention on joints of meat and butter.

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Women are idealized as the peace worth fighting for.
-http://lisa.revues.org/2611

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David Low Daily herald 15th April 1952

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What a tasteful way to sell bootlaces

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Britain at the centre- yet needing support to thrive

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Britain at the centre- yet needing support to thrive

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United under one flag?

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This shows Rangoon Port in an exotic almost romantic light. Orientalism again. Such a contrast to the ports of the UK.

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Again something bordering on the exotic for these farm workers contrasting with those of Britain. Poor simple natives who still use oxen couldn't possibly be a threat to British labourers .

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Early 20th century electoral campaign posters.©  London School of Economics: Archive references: COLL MISC 0519/88; COLL MISC 0519/39
The story of the cheap loaf  View113 comments

What is each of these election posters from the early 20th century saying about free trade versus protectionism? Are they conveying the same message? The sign in the poster on the right quotes Joseph Chamberlain, ‘If you are to give a preference to the colonies you must put a tax on food.’

You can find larger versions with more information on the LSE Digital Library: What Price Today? and Why Toryism Would Mean Dearer Living. Larger versions can also be found in downloads below.

The story of the ‘cheap loaf’ is a wonderful illustration of how propaganda was adopted by particular imperial players.  During the Irish famine and larger hunger period of the 1840s, free trade promised cheap imports of foreign wheat that were currently being taxed by the Corn Laws. After the overthrow of the Corn Laws in 1846 by free trade radicals like Richard Cobden, hungry stomachs could be filled with cheap bread and hence the cheap loaf became the propagandistic representation of free trade.

The protectionist movement, sought to co-opt the powerful imagery of the cheap loaf in the earth 20th century. Partly in response to the rise of protectionist Empires throughout the western World, the United States, Germany and Russia, people increasingly critiqued the ideology of free trade and instead tried to suggest the England would be better off under protectionist reins.  The charismatic Joseph Chamberlain led this tariff reform movement and they used a variety of propagandistic measures including trying to co-opt the cheap loaf from the free traders. Unfortunately for the movement, co-opting the cheap loaf back-fired when Chamberlain tried to prove his point with real bread at a campaign meeting, in an endeavour to show that the ‘protectionist’ loaf was only a little smaller than the ‘free trade’ loaf. His Liberal opponents reacted by producing loaves of their own that were radically different in size, claiming that Chamberlain had been trying to mislead the voters.

As holders of the household purse, women were increasingly involved in the free trade versus protectionist debate. Interestingly Richard Cobden’s daughter, Jane Cobden Underwood, wrote the national best seller ‘The Cheap Loaf’ in the early 1900s, resurrecting the memory of her father’s free-trade crusade and the bad memories associated with British protectionism and the Irish Famine.

Although the Tariff Reform and the Conservative party were soundly defeated in the general election of 1906, free trade continued to come under attack in the 1920s.  ‘Buy British’ and ‘Empire Shopping’ campaigns sought to promote a vision of the imperial consumer and they were particularly effective in attracting middle-England housewives to the Conservative Party. Although defeated in the short-term, British protectionists would eventually be able to claim success, when England finally turned away from free trade and the cheap loaf in 1932.

You can find out more about the rise of modern advertising and early poster campaigns in Frank Trentmann’s book, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain (2009).

©  University of Exeter

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A piece from the Child's Own Magazine - sic - 1864

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Imperial Soap

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I think this was to encourage people to get involved in various areas that required travel within the empire. It implies that you will get all these great things if you go travelling.

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We have a present day awards system which uses in the title, British Empire, which no longer exisits. This says something about the importance of the Empire to those with influence and probably some of the recipients., even today.

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All stand together in the Empire, especially if you are white!!!

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U.S. versus England..threatens invasion of Canada.

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Irish. Canadians. Overseas. Irish-Inflected English Language. Sign up now!

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Our Colonial Allies Poster

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Analysis

Basutoland and its People attempts to outline the need for continued British involvement within Basutoland, while still advocating a clear division between the local population and the colonial rulers. The film, promoted as an educational picture, begins with a series of statements presented as historical fact. The film reports that ‘tribes are ruled by their native chiefs under the protection of the imperial government’. A further title espouses the necessary function…

Basutoland and its People attempts to outline the need for continued British involvement within Basutoland, while still advocating a clear division between the local population and the colonial rulers. The film, promoted as an educational picture, begins with a series of statements presented as historical fact. The film reports that ‘tribes are ruled by their native chiefs under the protection of the imperial government’. A further title espouses the necessary function of the British and affirms the popular imperial notion that the British have brought peace to the area: ‘Incessant tribal warfare was the rule until 1884, when the Imperial Government took control. Since then peace has reigned.’ The film also emphasises the function of the British in ‘civilising’ the Africans, as an intertitle claims that ‘the country was originally inhabited by a few wandering Bushmen, primitive people of a dirty yellow colour, and only some 4 feet high .’

Although the initial titles outline and support British involvement in Basutoland, the images within the first half of the film focus largely on the local customs of the area.  The Empire series promised to show ‘peoples, homes and habits’ and the film follows the formal and narrative conventions of other ethnographic pictures in representing local customs (KW, 19 November 1925). The film literally presents the African as a subject of study, as the camera presents a local boy from front view and then in profile. It depicts unclothed Africans outside huts, local people with circular baskets on their heads carrying grain, the process of beer-making, and African women cutting the hair of their children.

There are two significant factors to address here. First, the film highlights the difference between the Africans on screen and the British viewer. After showing the local method of cutting hair, an intertitle states ‘They polish them with sand and water!’ The use of the exclamation mark highlights how alien this custom is intended to appear to the viewer, while another title remarks that ‘none of the young children are overburdened with clothing’. Clothing served as a signifier of civilisation and the somewhat flippant tone of the commentary privileges the white viewer as a knowing authority, finding humour in the ‘unsophisticated’ customs of the Africans.

Secondly, these sequences, presented as documentary facts, are very evidently staged representations of Africa. The local people smile and repeatedly look up at the camera. When the commentary – again emphasising division – states that the youngsters are ‘shy of white people’, the film cuts to an image of a group of children running into a hut as a white person approaches. The staged sequences promote traditional western images of ‘Africa’, which the commentary endorses. A further title explains that the children ‘respond to a little gentle bribery’.

This sequence provides the only brief appearance of a white person within the film and offers their only acknowledged intervention. The final act of the film, the ‘pitso’, is seemingly organised and run without British involvement or influence, but again the influence of the white cameraman is apparent, both in watching over the Africans and in positively directing their actions on camera. Structurally, the pitso also provides a clear conclusion to the film, as the final shot depicts the local children waving goodbye to the camera.

Tom Rice (February 2008)

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Synopsis

Scenes from Basutoland.

The intertitles outline a history of Basutoland, interspersed with shots of a Bushman and a tribal leader, before showing a local village, and its 'native huts'. Aspects of local life are depicted, such as basket-making and pottery, as well as the process of beer-making, 'which is also undertaken by women'. The Basuto women shave their children's heads with 'any old piece of steel' and then polish them. The film then shows the Basuto children running into a hut to…

Scenes from Basutoland.

The intertitles outline a history of Basutoland, interspersed with shots of a Bushman and a tribal leader, before showing a local village, and its 'native huts'. Aspects of local life are depicted, such as basket-making and pottery, as well as the process of beer-making, 'which is also undertaken by women'. The Basuto women shave their children's heads with 'any old piece of steel' and then polish them. The film then shows the Basuto children running into a hut to hide from the camera, and a European then entices them out by offering coins. Locals are shown curing animal skins, before the 'great tribal meeting or "Pitso"' is shown. Thousand of Basutos arrive, while the camera shows the distinctive head dresses of the local chiefs. The chiefs address the assembled warriors, after which there is a feast, followed by song and dance. The film concludes with village children waving farewell as the 'tribesmen set out on their long ride home'.
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Context

Although listed for release in November 1925 as part of the first set in the British Instructional Film series ‘The Empire’, Basutoland and its People was seemingly not included in trade shows for the series and was thus not reviewed alongside the series’ other episodes. Furthermore, An African Derby, released in February 1927 as part of the second set of the Empire series, opened with a title claiming that ‘The following motion pictures are the…

Although listed for release in November 1925 as part of the first set in the British Instructional Film series ‘The Empire’, Basutoland and its People was seemingly not included in trade shows for the series and was thus not reviewed alongside the series’ other episodes. Furthermore, An African Derby, released in February 1927 as part of the second set of the Empire series, opened with a title claiming that ‘The following motion pictures are the first ever taken in the native territory of Basutoland.’

It is most likely that both Basutoland and its People and An African Derby were filmed in May 1925 when the Prince of Wales visited Basutoland as part of his African tour. A 14-part series recording the Prince’s tour was made by British Instructional Films and distributed by New Era Films, the team responsible for The Empire series. Furthermore, footage included in Basutoland and its People (1925) also features in An African Derby (for example a shot of a local woman eating), while scenes from An African Derby were again reused in a 1948 British Instructional film, also titled Basutoland and its People.

In 1924 the new South African Prime Minister, General JBM Hertzog, who strongly favoured complete independence from British influence, had supported a proposal that Bechuanaland and Swaziland should be incorporated into the Union of South Africa. The influence of the Union of South Africa on its landlocked enclave Basutoland was increasing as men from Basutoland moved to work in the Transvaal mines. Indeed, unemployment and labour migration ensured that while in 1911 a third of able-bodied men were out of the country, by 1936 at least half of the adult male population was absent. After 1925 agricultural life would suffer further with drought and economic depression contributing to a reduction in wool prices and ensuring that the export of cattle was, by 1933, barely a third of its 1928 total (Roberts 1986, 557,600).

The influence of the British within Basutoland was already limited. Basutoland had a white population of less than 2,000 (out of a total of 662,000), comprising civil servants, missionaries and licensed traders. Sir Arthur Pim, in his influential 1935 report for the Colonial Office on Basutoland, commented that ‘there was no rule either direct or indirect by the British Government. The nation is run by its Chiefs and the Government can merely proffer advice … the Basuto receives protection without control’ (Spence 1964, 223).

The Prince of Wales’ tour to Africa presented an opportunity to restate the role of the British within Basutoland and for Africans to reaffirm their loyalty to the British crown. Speaking at ‘the greatest Pitso that Basutoland has known’, the Prince presented the British crown as a source of protection and promoted a form of paternal imperialism. ‘To-Day you live in peace and prosperity under British rule’, he stated. ‘The King continues to watch over you with fatherly care. You must show yourselves worthy of his protection by listening to the words of the officers appointed to guide and instruct you. They will educate you’ (The Times, 30 May 1925, 12).

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Evening Post (Wellington, NZ) 25 May 1931. Plenty of emotive language here!

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Empire as father and children.

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Empire as family.

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NZ Government poster