Ashley Jackson | |
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| Born | 24 June 1971 |
| Occupation | Historian (King's College London) |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
Ashley Jackson (born June 24, 1971) is a professor of imperial and military history in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Jackson is a specialist in the history of the British Empire.[1] He was featured on the BBC mockumentary Cunk on Earth.[2]
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Publications
Jackson has published several books, including:
- Botswana, 1939–1945 : An African Country at War (1999)
- War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean (2001)
- The British Empire and the Second World War (2006)
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Grand Tour of the British Empire at its Height (2009)
- Distant Drums : The Role of Colonies in British Imperial Warfare (February 2010)
- Churchill (2011) online
- Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism (with David Tomkins)
- The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction (2013)
- Buildings of Empire (2013)
- Persian Gulf Command: A History of The Second World War in Iran and Iraq (2018)
- Of Islands, Ports and Sea Lanes: Africa and the Indian Ocean in the Second World War
His articles include:
- Jackson, Ashley. "Governing empire: colonial memoirs and the history of HM overseas civil service." African Affairs Vol. 103, No. 412 (Jul., 2004), pp. 471–491 online
- Jackson, Ashley. "Empire and beyond: the pursuit of overseas national interests in the late twentieth century." English Historical Review 122.499 (2007): 1350–1366.
- Jackson, Ashley. "New Research on the British Empire and the Second World War: Part II." Global War Studies 7.2 (2010): 157–184. online
See also
Notes
- ^ David Killingray, "The British Empire and the Second World War, by Ashley Jackson," African Affairs 108#432, (July 2009) pp. 489–490, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adp027
- ^ Pandya, Hershal (10 February 2023). "Cunk on Earth Is So Perfectly Stupid". Vulture.
Further reading
- Herbert, Eugenia W. "Ashley Jackson. Buildings of Empire." American Historical Review 120#2 (2015): 575–576.
External links
- "Jackson, Professor Ashley," King's College London [1]
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