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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.
New Directions in Veteran History, COLVET Workshop, 02 April, Maynooth University (Hybrid).
The COLVET project held its inaugural workshop in Maynooth on April 02 2025. This hybrid event brought together scholars from across different geographical and temporal contexts of veteran history to explore New Directions in Veteran History. With participants from...
Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.
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
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....
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
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 colonies...
Nourredine Abdellah Bendjelloul: A Veteran’s Quest for Political Equality in Colonial Algeria
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,...