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Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

by Donal Hassett | Feb 11, 2025 | News, Presentations

Dónal Hassett, ‘Repenser l’ancien combatttant depuis l’empire colonial’, University of Lille, 07/11/2024.

Dónal Hassett, ‘Repenser l’ancien combatttant depuis l’empire colonial’, University of Lille, 07/11/2024.

by Donal Hassett | Nov 7, 2024 | Events

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

  • ‘Exhibiting Imperial Loyalty: Veterans at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931’
  • Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Guns and Gun Licences for Colonial Soldiers and Veterans. Italian East Africa in Comparative Perspective’, New Perspectives on the History of Firearms, University of Padova, 18-19/12/2025
  • Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire’, Journal of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 51, 2025.
  • Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘‘The Muslim, in general, was not too troubled by the emotions of the war’: The Influence of the First World War on the Rise of Colonial Psychiatry’, Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 05/12/2025
  • Project Team Presentations and PI Keynote, ‘Between Choice and Command Workshop, Erfurt, 01/12-02/12/2025

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