Ashley Jackson
Ashley Jackson
Current role and background:
Ashley Jackson is Professor of Imperial and Military History at King's College London. He joined King's Defence Studies Department in 2004 after eight years as a Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford, and a brief spell as Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Oxford Brookes University. He completed his British Academy-funded master’s (1993) and doctorate (1996) at New College, Oxford. At the Joint Services Command and Staff College, where the Defence Studies Department is based, he has worked on all courses including the Higher Command and Staff Course, and was Academic Director for the Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land) in 2006-08. He is a member of the Development Group and the Academic Advisory Panel of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust (SOFO) museum project.
Research and publications:
His research concentrates on aspects of British imperial and military history, with regional expertise relating to sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean region. He is the author of numerous articles and five single-authored books on aspects of British imperial history - Botswana 1939-45: An African Country at War (OUP, 1999); War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean (Macmillan, 2001); The British Empire and the Second World War (COntinuum, 2006); Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Grand Tour of the British Empire at its Height (Quercus, 2009); and Distant Drums: The Role of Colonies in British Imperial Warfare (Sussex Academic Press, 2010).
He is currently writing five books: Illustrating Empire: Images from the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection (with David Tomkins; Bodleian Library/The University of Oxford); Buildings of Empire (OUP); Winston Churchill (Quercus); Ocean Victory: Britain’s War from Suez to Sumatra (Harvard UP); and The British Empire for OUP’s ‘Very Short Introduction’ series.
He is on the editorial board of the journal Global War Studies and chairs the King’s Imperial, Diplomatic, and Military History Research Group, which includes among its activities the joint King’s College London-Oxford Brookes University ‘International and Military Studies’ seminar series (co-convened with Dr Donal Lowry).
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