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Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.

Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.

by Donal Hassett | Mar 24, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

On the evening of 11 February 1927, the tall, gaunt figure of Lamine Senghor strode to the podium at the inaugural meeting of the League against Imperialism (LAI). The LAI was one of the interwar communist movement’s most significant attempts to forge an anti-colonial...
Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army

Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army

by Donal Hassett | Feb 18, 2025 | Veterans' Stories

In 2022, the film Tirailleurs premiered to rave reviews in France. Starring the highly regarded actor Omar Sy, the film follows a father and son from the Senegalese interior who are forcibly enrolled in the French Army in 1917 and sent to fight on the Western Front....
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,...

Recent Posts

  • Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.
  • Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army
  • Invited Talk, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, 13/02/2025
  • 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
  • Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

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