Dan Snow
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| Daniel Robert Snow | |
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| Born | December 3, 1978 London, England |
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| Residence | London, England |
| Nationality | British/Canadian |
| Education | Modern History |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Historian and broadcaster |
| Salary | GBP 75,000 per year |
| Parents | Peter Snow |
| Relatives | Margaret MacMillan, David Lloyd George |
Daniel Robert Snow (born December 3, 1978 in London, England) is a British television presenter. He is the son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist and Ann MacMillan, a CBC London correspondent. Through his mother he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, and a great great grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He has Canadian and British citizenship.
He attended St Paul's School in Barnes, where he was Captain of the School, a member of the undefeated 1st XV and of the Princess Elizabeth Cup winning 1st VIII in his final year, and then Balliol College, Oxford. While at university his tutor was Niall Ferguson. Dan Snow received a first class honours degree in Modern History. He rowed three times in the University Boat Race, winning in 2000, and losing a controversial race as president in 2001.
After leaving university he and his father Peter sailed naked across the Atlantic together. Dan Snow captained the boat on the return leg and wrote an article in Yachting Monthly detailing his experiences. A crewmember lost the tip of his finger in a storm and had to be airlifted by helicopter.
In 2003 Dan Snow and his father made a programme on El Alamein to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the battle and followed this up with an eight part series on BBC2 in 2004 called Battlefield Britain. This won a BAFTA award. The same year Dan Snow won a Sony award as one of the presenters on LBC Boat Race coverage.
He has made numerous history programmes for the BBC. He presented the 200th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Trafalgar, Beating Retreat 2006, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two.
Dan Snow is the One Show's History Hunter.
Dan Snow is now presenting BBC 2's 20th Century Battlefields. This covers battles all around the world and is presented in similar fashion to the first Battlefield Britain which was broadcast in various markets in 2006 and is available on DVD. The second series can also be viewed on the Military Channel.
Dan Snow is writing a book with Hodder and Stoughton about the Seven Years War.
He has also started Ballista Media production company, which has worked closely with English Heritage and other museums and launched the first handheld video guides to London.
In October 2007 he was named on the Evening Standard List of Top 1000 most influential Londoners.
In January 2008, while presenting What Britain Earns, a BBC programme about salaries in the UK, he admitted to earning around GBP 75,000 a year.
