Dan Snow Daniel Robert Snow ( born 3 December 1978 ) is an English television presenter . He has presented and appeared in many popular history - related programmes for the BBC and is the " History Hunter " for " The One Show " . Early life and background . Dan Snow is the youngest son of Peter Snow , BBC television journalist , and Ann MacMillan , Managing Editor of CBC London Bureau . Dan therefore has dual British - Canadian citizenship . Through his mother , he is the nephew of Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan , and a great - great - grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George . One of his father ' s cousins is the Channel 4 news reporter Jon Snow . Education . Snow was educated in London at Barnes Primary School and at St Paul ' s School where he was captain of the school and rowed for his school team . He went on 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 race as president . Career . 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 . Father and son then collaborated to present an 8 - 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 on the LBC Boat Race coverage . He has made numerous history programmes for the BBC . He also presents on many of the 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 Armistice in November 2008 , Trooping the Colour and the City Salute . Snow again collaborated with his father to present BBC 2 ' s " 20th Century Battlefields " and its print edition , which were both well received . The series 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 . In June 2008 , Dan Snow was in a three - part series which was called ' Britain ' s Lost World ' on BBC 1 . Along with Kate Humble and Steve Backshall , he stayed on the island of St Kilda , Scotland , to find out more about its history and wildlife . In the TV programme " My Family at War " he was critical of Thomas D ' Oyly Snow , his great - grandfather , who commanded VII Corps on the first day on the Somme . In November 2011 Snow teamed up with the Irish army to fire a British or Canadian made Browning Mark II ( or a Mk . II * variant ) . 303 " machinegun which he had excavated from a Spitfire which crashed in Donegal while being flown by Bud Wolfe . Despite being in a peat bog for 70 years the machine gun fired without a hitch after careful cleaning and with fresh ammunition . On December 8 , 2012 , Snow co - presented " Rome ' s Lost Empire " with Dr . Sarah Parcak , a space archaeologist from University of Alabama at Birmingham ( U . A . B . ) . In late 2012 Snow embarked on a promotional tour for his new book " Battle Castles : 500 Years of Knights and Siege Warfare " , which was published in conjunction with a 6 - part documentary he had presented for the History Channel . In early 2013 , he presented a programme on the history of railways on BBC Two , called " Locomotion : Dan Snow ' s History of Railways " . Personal life . On 27 November 2010 , Snow married criminologist Lady Edwina Grosvenor , the second daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster . Their daughter Zia was born in 2011 . On Sunday 18 April 2010 Snow and a few friends took three rigid - hulled inflatable boat s from Dover to Calais to help 25 people return to the UK after they were stranded in France by the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland . When they arrived at Calais they were told by the French authorities that they could not return to collect any more people . In August 2011 , Snow performed a citizen ' s arrest on a rioter in London who was stealing from a shoe shop . He is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association .