Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His books, including The Plantagenets, Magna Carta, The Templars and The Colour of Time, have sold more than one million copies worldwide. He has written and hosted dozens of TV shows including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series ‘Secrets of Great British Castles’. For ten years Dan wrote a weekly column for the London Evening Standard and his writing has also appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, GQ and The Spectator.
Books in order of publication:
| Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 | 2009 |
| The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England | 2012 |
| The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors | 2014 |
| Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter | 2014 |
| Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty | 2015 |
| A Realm Divided: England in 1215 | 2015 |
| The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors | 2017 |
| The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 | 2018 |
| Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands | 2019 |
| The World Aflame: The Long War 1914 – 1945 | 2019 |
| In the Reign of King John: A Year in the Life of Plantagenet England | 2020 |
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