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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A review of Richard III: The Self-Made King by Michael Hicks. If it were unclear that Yale University does not much care at present for white males, especially dead ones, the University’s gutting 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 ...

Reece Shearsmith and Sheridan Smith star in real-life drama, The Widower, go behind the scenes of Life And Death Row and learn more about the lives of The Plantagenets. The Widower ITV, 9pm Having ...

"The prince was drunk" is the attention-grabbing first sentence of Dan Jones's The Plantagenets. There follows an account of the 1120 wreck of royal prince William the Aetheling's flagship, The White ...