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.

The Day the Sea Ran Red

Battle of Sluys

<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>

Dan Jones | Published May 06, 2013

Exhuming Richard the Lionheart

Royalty

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

Dan Jones | Published Mar 03, 2013

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.

Dan Jones | Published Feb 21, 2013

A King’s Lonely Fan Club

Revisionists

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

Dan Jones | Published Feb 05, 2013