Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’.

by Donal Hassett | Oct 6, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

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’

by Donal Hassett | Oct 6, 2025 | Presentations

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)

by Donal Hassett | Sep 19, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

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

by Donal Hassett | Sep 19, 2025 | Presentations

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:...

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...