Author: Ashley Jackson

Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. Th...

I am not one for pretty pictures.' Perhaps when I am long gone this will be a quote that I am remembered for alongside my paintings. For you will m...

'Ashley Jackson The Yorkshire Artist' contains a collection of paintings that have been personally chosen by the artist to bring together his perso...

Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, 'always in the wrong, surround...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire r...