Dan Snow

Author, speaker, broadcaster, historian, and host, Dan Snow is the BBC’s history guy and presenter of the podcast History Hit. Dan wrote and presented the action documentary Battle Castles: 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare. With his father, Peter, he presented the BAFTA award-winning BBC series Battlefield Britain. He has created and hosted TV documenataries on London, the Battle of Trafalgar, America, and on the aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal. He’s was the ‘History Hunter’ for The One Show.

Besides history, Dan has covered many live events, including Trooping the Colour and commemorations of the Falklands conflict, as well as current affairs programmes including Who Really Owns Britain? and What Britain Earns. One of the BBC’s most popular factual broadcasters, during the course of his career Dan has been gassed, set on fire, trained as a sniper, and contracted has hypothermia! He also launched the first handheld video guides to London and is the author of a number of books including On This Day in History, a compilation of significant, but often lesser-known, historical dates. As a keynote speaker Dan finds lessons in leadership from Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Napoleon.

As well as looking at the history of almost any place, group or job, Dan also considers the causes, consequences and evolution of innovation. He examines the circumstances of the industrial revolution and the factors that made Britain uniquely suited to encouraging developments, from patent law to natural resources. He also looks at examples such as the printing press and the railway, at first feared and unregulated; they spawned rapid changes in society and were eventually subject to strict government controls. By analysing history, Dan discusses the probable futures of everything from the tech giants to air pollution to the ethics of AI.

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