News and Events
Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’.
Chiflè Seghid was born in Zagher, a village in the Hamasien region of colonial Eritrea, not far from Asmara, the capital city of Italian colony Eritrea. His date of birth is unknown, but we know that he enlisted on 18 September 1912. This date marked the beginning of...
Conference Presentation at the International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Hawassa, Ethiopia, 01/10/2025. Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘From Slaves to Ascaris: Colonial Soldiers and their Pasts in Slavery’
Nicola presented as part of a broader panel on the history of 'Ethiopian Voices against Slavery'. You can access the full programme here: Conference Programme
Dónal Hassett, ‘No Right to Return or Remain: French Colonial Soldiers and Discriminatory Demobilization (Hosted by The Returning Soldier)
You can access this piece here: https://returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/no-right-to-return-or-remain-french-colonial-soldiers-and-discriminatory-demobilization/
COLVET Conference Panel, 35th Irish Conference of Historians, Presenting: Prof Dónal Hassett and Dr Nicola Camilleri, Chaired by Dr Anindita Bhattacharya
For the 35th Irish Conference of Historians, the COLVET team organised a panel entitled 'Life in the Shadow of Conflict: Survival and Self-Realisation in the Africa after the Great War'. Prof Hassett presented on 'Grief and the Global Greater War: Tracing the...
Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)
The Centenary of the First World War saw unprecedent prominence given to the ‘colonial contribution’ in commemorative discourse. While this newfound public recognition sometimes relied on simplistic and sanitised narratives of the war, scholarship produced in the...
Project Presentation, ‘Imperial Loyalty, Legibility and Legal Rights: The Function of the Veteran’s Card in Interwar French West Africa’, HIDDEN Cost Action Conference, Maynooth University, 15 May 2025.
The Colonial Veteran in the Archive, COLVET Workshop, 25 June, Hybrid Workshop, Maynooth University (Hybrid)
Workshop Schedule 09:30-09:45 Registration 09:45-10:00 Welcome, Prof Dónal Hassett 10:00-11:00 Keynote: Prof Santanu Das, All Souls College, Oxford University, ‘Decolonising the First World War: Archive, Resistance, Commemoration’. 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:45:...
Project Presentation: ‘Writing the History of Colonial Veterancy: Sources on Eritrean Askari’, Dr Nicola Camilleri, Research and Documentation Centre, Asmara, Eritrea, May 06 2024
Conference Presentation: ‘Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies’, Prof Dónal Hassett, Military Welfare History Network Symposium, University of Birmingham, April 11 2025.
New Directions in Veteran History, COLVET Workshop, 02 April, Maynooth University (Hybrid).
The COLVET project held its inaugural workshop in Maynooth on April 02 2025. This hybrid event brought together scholars from across different geographical and temporal contexts of veteran history to explore New Directions in Veteran History. With participants from...