His second book, The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England, was published in 2012 in the United Kingdom and a year later in the United States, where it became a New York Times bestseller. He was educated at The Royal Latin School, a state grammar school in Buckingham, before attending Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, where he was taught by David Starkey.ĭan Jones' first history book was a popular narrative history of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, entitled Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which was published in 2009.

He has written for The Times, the Sunday Times, The Telegraph, and for The Spectator, The Daily Beast and Newsweek, The Literary Review, The New Statesman, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, British Broadcasting Corporation History Magazine and History Today.ĭan Jones is the great-nephew of British politician and journalist Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont.ĭan Jones is an English writer, historian, and journalist.ĭaniel Gwynne Jones was born in Reading, England, in 1981 to Welsh parents. He is a columnist at the London Evening Standard, where he writes regularly about sport. Jones has also made a six-part series for Channel 5 (United Kingdom) entitled Secrets of Great British Castles. In 2014, Jones's book The Plantagenets was adapted for television as a four-part series on Channel 5 (United Kingdom) entitled Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets. His fourth book is entitled 'Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter' and was published in 2014. lieutenant is a family portrait of the Plantagenet kings from Henry II to Richard World War II Jones' third book, The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors, published in 2014, picks up where The Plantagenets leaves off and covers the period 1420–1541, from the death of Henry V to the arrival of the Tudors.

Dan Jones' first history book was a popular narrative history of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, entitled Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, which was published in 2009.

Dan jones the plantagenets review