News and Events
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,...
Rethinking Veterency from the Colonies
Past Events
‘Quel monde combattant? Rethinking Veterancy from the French Empire’, Invited Talk, University of Bristol, February 28th 2024.‘Colonial Veterancy, Global History, and the ERC’, Invited Talk, University of Swansea, February 29th 2024.‘Rethinking Veterancy from the...