Dan Jones
Historian, broadcaster and author
Dan Jones is a British historian, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author. He wrote Powers and Thrones and The Plantagenets.
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British Born 1981 in Reading, United Kingdom
About Dan Jones
Dan Jones was born in 1981 and studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a British popular historian who also writes novels, including the Essex Dogs trilogy. His books have been published in 23 languages and include The Templars, Henry V, The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones. He writes and hosts the weekly podcast This Is History, and has presented dozens of television documentaries, among them the Netflix series Secrets of Great British Castles. He has contributed articles to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and spent a decade as a columnist at the London Evening Standard. He holds a fellowship of the Royal Historical Society, and was appointed a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces in 2025.