DAN Snow believes that history is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to anyone on the planet and on his best-selling tour An Evening With the ‘History Guy’ on the History Hit UK Tour, the historian and broadcaster will be telling audiences why.

Dan's lined-up more than 40 dates for his 2019 tour, including The Forum at Barrow on Wednesday, March 13.

And if you're looking for pressie ideas for Christmas, Dan also has a new book On This Day In History published this week that sees Dan bring to life a key event in history for each day of the year.

Dan - who runs his own online TV Channel History Hit TV and has a regular history slot on the One Show - will share anecdotes from his career as a historian and broadcaster. Audiences are in for an additional treat as every show will have its own exclusive ‘local’ element that will see Dan present historical facts about each town and area on the tour. There will also be a 20 minute question and answer session.

The son of legendary broadcaster Peter Snow and the nephew of Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow, Dan is the great great grandson of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Attributing his love of history to his childhood when he recalls spending weekends being taken to castles, battlefields, country houses and churches, Dan went on to study history at Oxford University. During his stint at Oxford he also rowed in the boat race three times.

When Dan left Oxford he started presenting history programmes with his dad and their series Battlefield Britain went on to win a BAFTA. Over the years he's made programmes on a number of historical topics and has presented shows such as Armada, Grand Canyon and Vikings. Dan also hosts his own podcast History Hit and is part of the BBC Events team presenting anniversary programmes commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the landings at Gallipoli in 2015. He has written or contributed to several books including Death or Victory, the story of the siege of Quebec in 1759, The World’s Greatest Twentieth Century Battlefields and most recently The Battle of Waterloo Experience.

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