Colonial Film. Moving Images of the British Empire

This website 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.

 

1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission

In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.

These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific expedition led by the 23-year old French ethnologist Noël Ballif. This mission was the first organised by the Liotard group, a collective of young French explorers from Paris’ Musée de l’Homme.

Seven Men, One Leg

This exhibition takes a closer look at different aspects of the process of reintegration by highlighting some international examples, based on newspaper articles, illustrated with photographs and stories from various sources.

The First World War - Places of Transit

World War I was a complex and ambiguous event. The time has come to overcome traditional narratives and categories of nations, epic pictures of war, debates about war guilt and rivalries between a History from "above" and one from “below”. In this virtual exhibition, we would like to invite you to explore World War I from different perspectives with all its inconsistencies.

Visions of War

Visions of War examines how serving soldiers and official war artists depicted conflict on the Western Front during World War One in paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculpture. It touches upon the lives of the artists and soldiers who made these works and explores their artistic approaches.

1749-1937. Violence Ridicule and Silence. An inter-institutional exhibition plotting Irish women's road to the vote in 1918.

The recent interest in the history of female suffrage in Ireland is welcome, although much delayed. In this centenary year the Library of Trinity College Dublin is delighted to have contributed to the work of the Houses of the Oireachtas Vótáil 100 programme, in curating this exhibition, in collaboration with several sister institutions.