Dan Jones

Dan Jones is a historian and newspaper columnist based in London. His latest book, The Plantagenets, is published in the USA this spring.

Battle of Sluys

The Day the Sea Ran Red

<p>One of the great sea battles of the Hundred Years War pitted a massive French fleet against a much smaller English one—and changed the course of war. An excerpt from Dan Jones’s engaging new history, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Plantagenets-Warrior-Queens-England/dp/0670026654/" target="_blank">The Plantagenets</a></em>.</p>

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Royalty

Exhuming Richard the Lionheart

The remarkable truths that can be revealed by studying a centuries-old organ.

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The Fattest Europeans

Soon the Brits will be as fat as Americans thanks to the same industrial food complex, bad diet, and limited exercise. Dan Jones on what the country isn’t doing about its waistline.

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Revisionists

A King’s Lonely Fan Club

A group of Richard III’s defenders say he wasn't the monster of history. Alas the evidence proves otherwise, says Dan Jones.

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