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Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)

Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)

by Donal Hassett | Jun 18, 2025 | Publications

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.

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.

by Donal Hassett | Jun 18, 2025 | Presentations

The Colonial Veteran in the Archive, COLVET Workshop, 25 June, Hybrid Workshop, Maynooth University (Hybrid)

The Colonial Veteran in the Archive, COLVET Workshop, 25 June, Hybrid Workshop, Maynooth University (Hybrid)

by Donal Hassett | Jun 18, 2025 | Events

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

Project Presentation: ‘Writing the History of Colonial Veterancy: Sources on Eritrean Askari’, Dr Nicola Camilleri, Research and Documentation Centre, Asmara, Eritrea, May 06 2024

by Donal Hassett | May 14, 2025 | Events, Presentations

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.

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.

by Donal Hassett | May 14, 2025 | Events, Presentations

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  • Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)
  • 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)
  • 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.

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