Service and Sacrifice: Colonial Troops and the First World War

Service and Sacrifice: Colonial Troops and the First World War


Speaker: Sonya O. Rose (BIH Visiting Fellow)

Wednesday 14th March 12.30 - 2.30 Room G16 Birkbeck Main Building

This event is free - register here

This seminar will explore what historical scholarship suggests about how the meanings of the key wartime concepts of service and sacrifice resonated across Britain’s colonial empire. It will consider what it meant under different circumstances to ‘volunteer’ and will assess how colonial participation in the war effort was secured and with what consequences. The issues of gender, race and national consciousness will be central to the discussion.

If interested in this event do check out the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library catalogue for books published on African, Asian, Caribbean, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand contributions to both world wars, as well as archive collections which include Australian and New Zealand, Caribbean and African contributions.