Dan Snow

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Daniel Robert Snow was born in London on December 3, 1978. He is the son of Peter Snow, BBC television journalist and Ann MacMillan a CBC London correspondent. He has Canadian and British citizenship.

He attended St Paul's School in Barnes where he was headboy and then Balliol College, Oxford. While at university his tutor was Niall Ferguson. Dan Snow won a double first class degree. He rowed three times in the University Boat Race. He was president in the year 2000 when Oxford won the race for the first time in years.

After leaving university he and his father Peter sailed 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 Reatreat 2006, the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War Two.

Dan Snow was the One Show's History Hunter.

Dan Snow will be presenting BBC2's Battlefield Britain 2 in 2007. This will cover battles all around the world. The first series was broadcast in various markets North America in 2006, usually on a PBS affiliate. The second series is already 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. They have worked closely with English Heritage and other museums. They also launched the first handheld video guides to London.