Mark Felton

Mark Paul Felton FRHistS
File:Mark Felton Martini Henry (cropped).jpg Felton in 2023
Born	1974 (age 51–52) Colchester, Essex, England
Education	Philip Morant School Anglia Polytechnic University (BA) University of Essex (PGCert, MA, PhD)
Occupations	YouTuber writer historian
Years active	2005–present
Organization	Royal British Legion part-time volunteer (2010–2014)
Notable work	Zero Night
Television	Combat Trains Top Tens of Warfare Evolution of Evil
Children	1
YouTube information
Channels	Mark Felton Productions War Stories with Mark Felton
Years active	2017–present
Genre	History
Subscribers	2.37 million
Views	968.64 million
Last updated: 12 December 2025
Website	markfelton.co.uk

Mark Paul Felton (born 1974) is a British YouTuber, writer, and historian. Felton has written non-fiction books and is a YouTuber with channels on 20th and 21st century topics, mainly related to World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Felton has taught at the University of Essex and at various universities in China. He has also been featured on television as a military history commentator. In 2014, he published Zero Night, a book about the 1942 mass allied escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag VI-B.

Early life and education

Felton was born in 1974 in Colchester, Essex. He attended a local non-selective comprehensive school, Philip Morant School. Felton sat for a BA degree in history and English at Anglia Polytechnic University. He also holds a postgraduate certificate in political science, an MA in Native American studies, and a PhD in history, all from the University of Essex. Felton's doctoral thesis, titled "Resistance in exile: Sitting Bull and the Teton Sioux in Canada, 1876-1881", was in the field of Native American studies.

Career

Felton taught at the University of Essex and worked in a junior role at the local Colchester facility of the former Benefits Agency (UK social security agency) before moving to China for nine years, where he was a part-time English teacher at Shanghai University and Fudan University. He was a volunteer for the Royal British Legion in Shanghai, helping to organise Poppy Appeals from 2010 to 2014. Staff at the British Consulate in Shanghai and Felton were involved in identifying gravestones of British soldiers killed by Japanese military personnel in 1937.

Felton has appeared on television as a military history commentator, including in the series Combat Trains (History Channel), and Evolution of Evil (American Heroes Channel).. His book Zero Night was about an escape from a German prisoner of war camp; it was mentioned in a 30 minute BBC Radio Cambridgeshire local radio show. Zero Night was optioned in 2016 by Essential Media for film development. In 2016, Felton's book Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz, which concerns the escape of British soldiers from Vincigliata Castle near Florence in 1943, was optioned for film development by Entertainment One.

In October 2017, Felton started a YouTube show, titled Mark Felton Productions, which covers various 20th century topics.

In October 2019, Center Street released his Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp, which covers illegal mistreatment by German personnel of US prisoners of war in Nazi captivity in the Battle of the Bulge. For the book, Felton referred to documents and witness accounts.

Personal life

Felton lives in Norwich with his wife and son.

Awards and honours

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

External links

• Official website