History, Etc

1 month ago | danjones.substack.com | Dan Jones

I’m asked a lot what I’m reading, or what I’m looking forward to reading. Here is a look at my current stack. All of these books are available now for order or pre-order via your favourite bookseller. Video above. More details on each below. I’ll make one of these posts every month or so to round up what I’m reading. What’s on your TBR pile? Share your tips in the comments section…Chernow is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, and one of the great American historians working today.

2 months ago | danjones.substack.com | Dan Jones |Lucy Worsley

Thank you everyone who watched this evening’s live broadcast with . Here’s the full conversation for anyone who wants to re-watch. Enjoy!Dan x Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to History, Etc to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Extra content delivered each week to the History, Etc Substack community. With Q&As, interviews and shout-outs from Dan. Extra content delivered each week to the History, Etc Substack community.

Jan 13, 2025 | danjones.substack.com | Dan Jones

Next spring I will be hosting a historical tour to France, with my friends at Author Fan Travel and (very excitingly) the great Helen Castor. This will be the third tour I’ve hosted. They’re great fun. Booking is now open. (For my paid subscribers there is also a $125 discount - details below.)This time the tour will be by riverboat, beginning and ending in Paris. Helen and I will be giving talks along the way.

Jan 10, 2025 | danjones.substack.com | Dan Jones

The Great Fire(s) of Los Angeles, which are currently raging, have consumed tens of thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of homes, and are by no means over, give one the sickening feeling that often accompanies seeing history unfold. Studying history is fun. Living through it, less so. The fires are also a reminder that for all the sophisticated tools that are available to us in the twenty-first century, humans are still highly vulnerable to some timeless elemental threats.

Jan 3, 2025 | danjones.substack.com | Dan Jones

On Maundy Thursday - April 7th - 1300, Pope Boniface VIII stood on the balcony of his papal basilica in Rome. Around him, the city flocked with pilgrims, many of whom had come to see the Pope that day and receive his blessing. Boniface had given them a compelling reason to be there. Around six weeks earlier, he had issued a papal bull announcing a Jubilee.