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Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

by Donal Hassett | Aug 26, 2024 | Presentations

Prof Hassett presented a paper on ‘Rethinking the French Model of Military Welfare from the Colonies’. He discussed how the conditionality of rights and the devolution of services to paternalist and authoritarian philanthropic organisations in the French...
Nourredine Abdellah Bendjelloul: A Veteran’s Quest for Political Equality in Colonial Algeria

Nourredine Abdellah Bendjelloul: A Veteran’s Quest for Political Equality in Colonial Algeria

by Donal Hassett | Aug 26, 2024 | Veterans' Stories

Cultural representations and political evocations of veterans in former colonies often reproduce visions of ex-serviceman as the stooges of empire or the vanguard of anticolonial agitation. Colonial historians have long contested this binary, pointing to the variety,...
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Recent Posts

  • 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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