For around 200 years, between 1606 and 1801, these were the only ... One suggestion is that the flag was called a Union Jack when used as a jack flag on a Roval Navy ship, but this remains open ...

Show more Anne McElvoy explores the history and possible future of the Union Jack or Union flag ... in Britain - and for the flag which was created in 1606 as ‘the flag of Britain’, and ...