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Daniel Robert Snow (born 3 December 1978) is a British-Canadian popular historian and television presenter. He is the founder of History Hit, a global History media network. He is an ambassador of the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).
Dan Robert Snow was born on 3 December 1978 in Westminster, London. He is the youngest son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist, and Ann MacMillan, a Canadian and managing editor emerita of CBC's London Bureau; thus he holds dual British and Canadian nationality. Through his mother, he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan and also a great-great-grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Snow was educated in London at Westfield Primary School (now Barnes Primary School) and at St Paul's School where he was Captain of School and rowed for its VIII. He then went to Balliol College, Oxford, his father's alma mater, and graduated with first-class honours in Modern History. A keen rower since his secondary school days, he won the U-23 men's division at the 2000 British Indoor Rowing Championships and rowed three times in the Boat Race, winning in 2000 and losing the controversial 2001 Boat Race when club President.
Snow presented his first programme in October 2002 just after graduating from university, co-presenting the BBC's 60th anniversary special on the Battles of El Alamein with his father Peter. The two then collaborated to present an eight-part documentary series called Battlefield Britain, which aired in 2004, and won a BAFTA Craft Award for special effects. The same year, Snow won a Sony award as one of the presenters covering the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames.
Snow has presented on many state occasions such as the 200th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Trafalgar, Beating Retreat 2006, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, the 90th anniversary of the World War I Armistice in November 2008, Trooping the Colour and the Lord Mayor's Show. Snow again collaborated with his father to present BBC 2's 20th Century Battlefields and its print edition. The series covers battles all around the world and is presented in similar fashion to the first Battlefield Britain.
In 2015 he founded History Hit, his own History media brand. Starting as a podcast, this has grown into a popular network encompassing a streaming service, Youtube channel and multiple podcasts.
Snow presented on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's specials, with his mother Ann MacMillan, for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth in 2022 and the coronation of Charles III and Camilla the following year.
In early 2022, Snow was part of the Endurance22 expedition that found Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost vessel, Endurance, 107 years after it sank in the Weddell Sea. He danced with Nadiya Bychkova for the 2023 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.
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Dan Snow
Daniel Robert Snow (born 3 December 1978) is a British-Canadian popular historian and television presenter. He is the founder of History Hit, a global History media network. He is an ambassador of the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).
Dan Robert Snow was born on 3 December 1978 in Westminster, London. He is the youngest son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist, and Ann MacMillan, a Canadian and managing editor emerita of CBC's London Bureau; thus he holds dual British and Canadian nationality. Through his mother, he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan and also a great-great-grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
Snow was educated in London at Westfield Primary School (now Barnes Primary School) and at St Paul's School where he was Captain of School and rowed for its VIII. He then went to Balliol College, Oxford, his father's alma mater, and graduated with first-class honours in Modern History. A keen rower since his secondary school days, he won the U-23 men's division at the 2000 British Indoor Rowing Championships and rowed three times in the Boat Race, winning in 2000 and losing the controversial 2001 Boat Race when club President.
Snow presented his first programme in October 2002 just after graduating from university, co-presenting the BBC's 60th anniversary special on the Battles of El Alamein with his father Peter. The two then collaborated to present an eight-part documentary series called Battlefield Britain, which aired in 2004, and won a BAFTA Craft Award for special effects. The same year, Snow won a Sony award as one of the presenters covering the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames.
Snow has presented on many state occasions such as the 200th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Trafalgar, Beating Retreat 2006, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, the 90th anniversary of the World War I Armistice in November 2008, Trooping the Colour and the Lord Mayor's Show. Snow again collaborated with his father to present BBC 2's 20th Century Battlefields and its print edition. The series covers battles all around the world and is presented in similar fashion to the first Battlefield Britain.
In 2015 he founded History Hit, his own History media brand. Starting as a podcast, this has grown into a popular network encompassing a streaming service, Youtube channel and multiple podcasts.
Snow presented on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's specials, with his mother Ann MacMillan, for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth in 2022 and the coronation of Charles III and Camilla the following year.
In early 2022, Snow was part of the Endurance22 expedition that found Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost vessel, Endurance, 107 years after it sank in the Weddell Sea. He danced with Nadiya Bychkova for the 2023 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.
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