News and Events
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...