holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team.
The Colonial Film project united universities (Birkbeck and University College London) and archives (British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) to create a new catalogue of films relating to the British Empire. The ambition of this website is to allow both colonizers and colonized to understand better the truths of Empire.
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The British Army In India 1801
The Vintage Wargaming site has reproduced some classic pages from the Wargamers Newsletter from 1974, in which Philip Haythornwaite details the British Army in India.
Eye Candy: Sudan Campaign
Lonely Gamers has some terrific photos of a Sudan engagement. Photos like these always make me want to start a new period.
Dahomey’s Women Warriors
An interesting colonial article in Smithsonian.
For the better part of 200 years, thousands of female soldiers fought and died to expand the borders of their West African kingdom. Even their conquerors, the French, acknowledged their “prodigious bravery.”
Historic Maps Of Africa
Here’s a nice collection of historic maps of Africa. I have for some time wanted to purchase a pile of those Foundry Darkest Africa figures and set forth on adventures on the Dark Continent.