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. December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Peter Snow CBE (born April 20, 1938 in Dublin, Ireland) is a British television and radio presenter. ...

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. St Pauls School St Pauls School is a boys public school. ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Jack Hawkins Undergraduates 403 MCR President Chelsea Payne Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in... This article has significant problems in multiple areas. ... Exhausted crews at the finish of the 2002 Boat Race The Boat Race is a rowing race between the rowing clubs of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. ...

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. El Alamein is a town in northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea coast. ... Battlefield Britain was a 2004 BBC television documentary series about famous battles in the history of Great Britain. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. ...

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. Combatants United Kingdom First French Empire, Spain Commanders The 1st Viscount Nelson † Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve Strength 27 ships of the line 33 ships of the line Casualties 449 dead, 1,214 wounded 4,480 dead, 2,250 wounded, 7,000 captured, 21 ships captured, 1 ship blown up...

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. Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... The Military Channel is cable and satalite television network run as part of the Discovery Channel group of networks within the USA and Canada which broadcast military history related programing. ...

Dan Snow is writing a book with Hodder and Stoughton about the Seven Years War. Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hodder Headline. ... This article is about the 1756–1763 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. English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ...

Trivia

Dan Snow is the great great grandson of David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman who guided Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations through World War I and the postwar settlement as the Liberal Party Prime Minister, 1916-1922. ...

His cousin is Jon Snow on Channel Four News Jon Snow is one of the main presenters of Channel 4 News. ...

He worked as a hiking guide in the Rocky Mountains

His favourite film is Last of the Mohicans The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. ...

During the course of his television career he has been gassed, set on fire, contracted hypothermia, flown in a B-17 over central London and tortured.

External links

• Video Guides
• Relative Values
• The ONE show
• Q&A in the Guardian
• Agent
• English Heritage Films
• Dan on Youtube
• Daily Telegraph interview about his rowing