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]
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)
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
^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