There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...

King Richard III, whose severely wounded body disinterred from under a parking lot in the British Midlands was confirmed by DNA testing this week, was the last of the 14 Plantagenet monarchs who ruled ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Everyone comes from somewhere else, and medieval royal dynasties are no exception. The Plantagenets were ...

It’s not often that a book manages to be both scholarly and a page-turner, but British historian Jones succeeds on both counts in this entertaining follow-up to his bestselling The Plantagenets ...

Three elements make this documentary about 250 years of British history compelling. First is on-camera narrator Dan Jones, an expert on England’s medieval period, who walks through the actual places ...

The Normandy coastline, as the D-Day planners discovered, can be a tricky and treacherous shore. In November 1120, a large longboat, the White Ship, set sail for England from the small port of ...

Sony Pictures Television has announced an overall development deal with British historian Dan Jones, author of bestsellers such as “The Plantagenets,” “The Hollow Crown” and “The Templars.” The deal ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. From Mr Steven Irvine. Sir, I noticed that in the opening sentence of the article about Warwick Castle (“I’ll ...

The Normandy coastline, as the D-Day planners discovered, can be a tricky and treacherous shore. In November 1120, a large longboat, the White Ship, set sail for England from the small port of ...