Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. He is the acclaimed author of the Essex Dogs trilogy, set during the Hundred Years War and published by Head of Zeus. The first installment, Essex Dogs, a BBC History 2022 Book of the Year and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, was published in September 2022 and the second, Wolves of Winter, in October 2023. His non fiction, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include The Plantagenets, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, The Templars, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and The Hollow Crown, a Sunday Times bestseller (published in the USA as The Wars of the Roses), and the recent Henry V, published in 2024. He has also written books about the Peasants’ Revolt and Magna Carta. His book Crusaders was published in autumn 2019. He co-authored the Sunday Times bestseller The Colour of Time, The World Aflame, and A Woman's World, 1850-1960, with Marina Amaral.

Dan has written and presented numerous TV series including ‘Secrets of Great British Castles’ (Netflix, Channel 5), ‘Britain’s Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets’ and ‘London: 2000 Years of History’. His shows have been sold to more than 40 countries. He has also appeared in programmes for BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, Channel 4, Sky Atlantic and History as well as dozens of radio stations in the UK and USA. He worked as a consultant on the A&E series ‘Knightfall’, wrote and hosted the official ‘Knightfall’ podcast, and appeared in HBO’s official film charting the real history behind ‘Game of Thrones’.

Dan’s journalism appears on both sides of the Atlantic. For a decade he was a weekly columnist for the London Evening Standard and he has also contributed to The Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Smithsonian, CNN, GQ, The Spectator, New Statesman, American Interest, BBC History Magazine, History Today, Tatler and Literary Review. He lives in Surrey, UK.