Welcome new followers! Will be sharing the stories of colonial veterans here as our research develops. For now, here's a picture of an Algerian veteran and his family from 1914 from the Archives nationales d'outre-mer.

'Because I served our adoptive France with zeal and devotion, I hope she will not let me died of hunger- Long Live France, Long Live the Minister for War, Long Live the President of the Republic'. Algerian veteran Saïd ben Ali ben Ahmed Guerroui-Mérouani, 27/03/1919.

Pedro Albizu Campos signed up to serve in 🇺🇸 Infantry at the outbreak of WWI. He helped organise homeguard in Ponce before being assigned to the all-black 375th infantry. War ended before they could be sent to Europe. He went on to be a leading figure in Puerto Rican nationalism.

🚨Job alert🚨 The COLVET team are looking for two postdoctoral researchers, one to work on colonial veterans in interwar India (24 months) and the other one colonial veterans in the interwar Italian Empire (18 months). Full details available here. universityvacancies.com/search/job?sea…

The Monument aux Morts in Fonds-Saint-Denis. Photo taken during a wonderful trip to Martinique last year.

Off to Leeds tomorrow for the @HistoryWelfare conference. This will be the first official outing for COLVET. I look forward to talking about how our vision of 🇫🇷 veteran provision is transformed when we look through the prism of empire. Will explore the case of Abdoulaye N'Diaye.

The Centre for Rehabilitation and Training of the War-Wounded in Kouba, Algeria. This centre mixed Algerian and settler veterans and is a fascinating, if underexplored, locus where 🇫🇷 veteran policies encountered and grappled with the grammars of difference essential to empire.

It has been fascinating delving into the history of Indian veterans of the First World War. There's such a rich historiography produced by great scholars- will be interesting to put into dialogue with other imperial contexts.

We are very excited to welcome our new team member Dr Anindita Bhattacharya. Anindita will be working on Indian veterans in the interwar period. So looking forward to working with her as the project develops.

The kinds of stories that our project wants to shine a light on...

Delighted to welcome Nicola Camilleri as the newest member of the COLVET- Colonial Veterans ERC Project team. Nicola is a social and cultural historian of Italian and German colonialism with a particular interest in citizenship, militarism and sociability. He will be focusing on the Italian empire.