Bringing the Veteran into Colonial History, Bringing the Colonial into the Global History of Veterancy
COLVET is a four-year interdisciplinary project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant led by Prof Dónal Hassett, Department of History, Maynooth University.
This project will develop the first comprehensive comparative history of colonial veterancy in the interwar period. The project team and their collaborators will trace and analyse the contrasts and commonalities in the evolution and reception of veteran policy within, across, and between a wide range of colonial contexts. This research will help us reimagine the concepts we use to analyse veterans and their stories so they can better capture the diversity of veteran experiences around the globe.
The project will explore three key research questions:
How was veterancy defined, demarcated, and debated in colonial contexts?
How were colonial veterans conceptualised as political actors in the interwar world?
