/library/oar/handle/123456789/904 2025-11-14T17:22:25Z 2025-11-14T17:22:25Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/140505 2025-10-23T09:27:16Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The forgotten lot : ‘internati Anglo-Maltesi sgombrati dalla Libia’ : internment of ‘enemy aliens’ from an Italian colony during the Second World War Abstract: This dissertation explores the circumstances that led to the deportation and internment of the Maltese Tripolini during the Second World War, between 1940 and 1943. The Maltese Tripolini historically identified as British subjects and sought British protection. Although contemporaries held the 1911 Italian takeover of Tripoli as a watershed moment, the rise of fascism in the 1920s ensured their progressive marginalisation. As Italy sought to Italianise Libya, the Maltese Tripolini maintained their strong ties to Britain, resisted attempts at assimilation and protested at the introduction of new legislation regulating employment and civil marriage. This led to their gradual alienation from the economic and social life of Italian Libya. During the Second World War, as British subjects, the Maltese Tripolini were branded as enemy aliens. They became the only community to be deported in its entirety on the pretext of military necessity and concerns over espionage. All Maltese Tripolini known to have been deported and interned have been identified and indexed accordingly. This dissertation traces the broader context of these events, examining the social, political, and economic challenges faced by the community over two decades. This is done against the backdrop of deteriorating Anglo-Italian relations and political squabbling in British Malta. It investigates whether the Maltese Tripolini's internment in Italy was a strategic act of discrimination by the Italians due to their refusal to renounce British subject status. It will analyse their treatment in fascist concentration camps and detention points. It will also examine whether the Maltese Tripolini have been intentionally neglected by successive British and Maltese governments since the war, due to political, economic, or post-colonial factors. Although primary sources in Maltese, British, and Italian archives have preserved records of these events, they have largely been overlooked in Maltese historiography. Survivors were often reluctant to publicly share their memories, with only one notable account by Romeo Cini. This study fills this gap in the historical narrative of the Maltese diaspora, particularly focusing on how the Maltese Tripolini were relegated from ‘a long-contented community’ to ‘an alien minority’. Description: Ph.D.(Melit.)

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/136065 2025-06-04T06:00:31Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Towards the making of a new working class : MCAST and the development of a modern apprenticeship scheme Abstract: The closing of the Malta Shipyards in 2010 meant the loss of many trades. These trades entailed study programmes which have formed a good number of trade workers. During Colonial Malta the Malta Drydocks was a niche of the Admiralty and produced top notch skilled workers who made their living from there. This meant the need for a particular education leading to the opening of the Dockyard Apprenticeship Scheme where sixteen- year-olds who were not inclined for white collar jobs could pursue their studies and find a job. Though the Malta Shipyards has closed its doors, the apprenticeship training remained as one of the main practices in the vocational schooling at MCAST. The study shows how the apprenticeship training evolved along the years. The interviews give a clear picture of how the apprenticeship training worked and how useful it was for them. A comparison with the apprenticeship training running at MCAST today shows the differences between past and present schemes and reveals students’ perspectives on the apprenticeship training programmes. Description: M. Malt. St.(Melit.)

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/135864 2025-05-28T13:02:06Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Malta’s prisoner of war camps during the first world war Abstract: During the First World War, Malta served as an excellent naval base and hospital for the Allies. However apart from these two vital roles, Malta also functioned as a Prisoner of War (POW) Camp. This role is relatively underexplored in the literature. Nonetheless, it was an essential component of the war effort. Therefore, Malta’s POW Camps merited a study and a consideration of their own. Malta was the main POW Camp in the Mediterranean hub of the British Empire, with Gibraltar used as a transit camp and Ras-el-tin and Sidi Bishr camps in Egypt not of the required standard to host Officer POWs. The British Authorities adapted ready-built fortifications such as Fort Verdala, Fort San Salvatore, St. Clement’s Retrenchment and Polverista Barracks to serve as POW Camps. These were run by Camp Commandants and their staff. By December 1914 Malta’s POW Camps swelled with mainly interned civilians rounded up from Malta and Egypt. As the war progressed ex-combatants were captured from various theatres of war and transferred to Malta as POWs. Thanks to the efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), POW camps were regulated by the Geneva Convention of 1906 and the Hague Convention of 1907. These set clear legal obligations which every belligerent had to adhere to in their treatment of POWs. The overall aim of this research is to investigate in depth what happened in Malta’s POW Camps in the First World War. This will be achieved through a number of research objectives. The study will examine the administrative side of the camps in terms of the Choice of Area, Camp Staff, and Record Keeping and Repatriation of POWs. By using mainly primary sources supported with secondary sources, the main events in Malta’s camps during the First World War will be analysed. The study will then seek to evaluate critically the extent to which Malta’s POW Camps adhered to the legal obligations of the Geneva Convention of 1906 and The Hague Convention of 1907. Description: M. Malt. St.(Melit.)

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiorini, Stanley /library/oar/handle/123456789/122909 2024-05-29T09:14:46Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: X'nafu dwar Callus? Authors: Fiorini, Stanley Abstract: L-ISTORJA ftit magħrufa tal-patrijott Malti, it-tabib Mattew alias Ġużeppi Callus, bdiet taħkem l- immaġinazzjoni tal-pubbliku Malti mill-bidu tas-seklu dsatax (kmieni wara t-tluq ta' l-Ordni) 'il quddiem, mitejn u ħamsin sena wara ġrajjietu, bil-kitbiet ta' Jean de Bosredon Ransijat, William Eton, Dominique Miege, GianAnton Vassallo, Ramiro Barbaro di San Giorgio, Guze Muscat Azzopardi u ohrajn warajhom. Dawn kollha siltu l-ġrajja minn dokument tas-seklu sbatax - kitba ta' Dun Filippu Borgia - li, b'xorti ħazina tfixkel l-isem ta' l-eroj tagħna u sejjaħlu Mattew flok Ġużeppi kif kien tabilħaqq jismu, imma fl-istess waqt kien hu li, biex ngħidu hekk, kixef il-borma wara li l-ġrajja ta' stmellija nsatret kemm setgħet għal sebgħin sena sħaħ biex ma jiħmarux l-użuh ta' min kellu jdejh maħmuġa. Minkejja l-isforzi li ċar li kien hemm biex kollox jibqa' moħbi, il-figura storika ta' Callus ma setgħetx titħassar kif ġieb u laħaq u saħansitra xi dettalji ta' x'ġara sew u kif temmewlu ħajtu fuq il-forka għad baqa' ħjiel tagħhom farkivji jigimgħu l- għabra ta' sekli. L-għan ta' din il-kitba hi sewwasew li ġġissem b'dokumentazzjoni kemm jista' jkun sħiħa dan il-persunaġġ ewlieni fil-ġlieda għad-drittijiet sagrosanti tal-Maltin fi-ewwel nofs tas-seklu sittax u tikxef kemm tista' dettalji tal-komplott fuq ħajtu mill-Gran Mastru De Valette biex tlaħħam il-qafas tal-ġrajjiet li għaddielna Borgia.

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