History, Etc

History, Etc

SIGNED BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

...one last lecture for this year... and more

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Dan Jones
Nov 12, 2025
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Hello,

I’ve been writing a lot these last couple weeks - and doing a lot, I suppose.

In no particular order, I’ve had dinner (on November 5th) in the room in the Tower of London where Guy Fawkes was tortured… stayed in a house built in the year that Henry VIII died… hosted a heavy metal album launch… signed 350 more copies of the new special edition of my book The Hollow Crown (order here)… hosted a special podcast for the RNLI, remembering British lifeboat crews in the Second World War (listen here)… finished writing and recording the eighth season of my podcast This Is History (listen here)… AND as of about five minutes ago, finished writing a special Christmas miniseries of the podcast. Christmas! Wow. Oh, and my next book, THE CASTLE, is well underway and on course for publication in Autumn 2026.

Then there are a bunch of fun things that I can’t tell you about just yet. Movies, books, projects of the top secret variety, and more. Sorry to have been quiet. It’s not you - it’s me.

But here are a some cool things happening soon. So here, briefly, is where you can see me talk before the year is up - and where to get signed, dedicated books.


LAST LECTURE OF THE YEAR

On Monday 17th November I’m giving a lecture in Southwark Cathedral for the Churches Conservation Trust. It’s going to be great.

Tickets are available here.


SIGNED BOOKS (UK)

If anyone would like to order signed and dedicated books for delivery to any UK address in time for Christmas, then just email my local branch of Waterstones staines@waterstones.com.

You can order from my whole backlist, and let them know what message you’d like me to write inside it. The cutoff for UK deliveries is December 18th.


SIGNED BOOKS (INTERNATIONAL)

Don’t forget you can order signed (non dedicated) editions of some of my books via my friends at The Broken Binding.

Currently in stock:

Lion Hearts

The Hollow Crown


SIGNED, DEDICATED COPIES OF HENRY V (INTERNATIONAL)

I know that some of you really want dedicated books but don’t live in the UK. So here’s a limited offer. I’ve got about 15 copies of Henry V (UK paperback) beside my desk, which I can sign and mail out.

If you really want one, then here’s how to get one. (Subscribers only.)

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