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This year Dan is filming two television series-one based on his bestselling book, The Plantagenets and another series entitled Great British Castles. Daniel Gwynne Jones (born 27 July 1981) is a British historian, TV presenter, and journalist. He lives in London with his wife and two young children.

(With this introduction, you can brush up on your Shakespeare!)ĭan Jones is a historian and award-winning columnist for the Evening Standard. A graduate of Cambridge University, where he was a star student of David Starkey, he has presented a documentary for the BBC’s Handmade in Britain series and has appeared a number of times on the popular show Time Team. Thus some of the greatest heroes and villains in history are known-from Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule marked the high point of the medieval monarchy, to Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the Princes (Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York) in the Tower. His reign eventually descended into madness and war, and the crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the houses of Lancaster and York fought for power. The decline of the Plantagenets began when the feeble-minded Henry VI became king as an infant. With vivid descriptions of the battles of Towton and Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was slain, this dramatic narrative history revels in bedlam and. The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors / Jones, Dan, 1981- (Author) Book English New York : Viking, 2014 Tudor. Dan Jones’ Wars of the Roses is a story of brutal vendetta, treachery, and courage.

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