Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His non fiction, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include The Plantagenets, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; The Hollow Crown, a Sunday Times bestseller (published in the USA as The Wars of the Roses); The Templars, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; Crusaders; and the instant Sunday Times bestsellers Powers and Thrones (2021) and Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King (2024). He has also written books about the Peasants’ Revolt and Magna Carta, and co-authored the Sunday Times bestseller The Colour of Time, The World Aflame, and A Woman's World, 1850-1960, with Marina Amaral. His fiction includes the acclaimed Essex Dogs trilogy, set during the Hundred Years War. The first installment, Essex Dogs, was a BBC History 2022 Book of the Year, a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, and shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024. The second installment, Wolves of Winter, was published 2023, and the third installment, Lion Hearts, will be published in July 2025.

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’. He hosts the podcast 'This Is History: A Dynasty to Die For', a Sony Music Entertainment production, which was nominated for an Ambie Award in the Best History Category in 2024.

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.