www.danielsnowman.org.uk
Daniel Snowman:
Writer, Lecturer, Broadcaster
was born in London and educated at Cambridge (Double First in History)
and Cornell University in the USA. At 24 he was a Lecturer at Sussex University. For many years, Daniel worked at the BBC where, as Chief Producer (Features), he was responsible for a wide variety of radio series on cultural and historical subjects, specialising in such large-scale projects as Northern Lights (a Radio Four festival about the people, economics, science and politics of the Arctic) and Fin de Siècle, an ambitious project which attempted to enter and recreate the sound world of the final years of each of the past six centuries and which later appeared as a book, edited by Daniel Snowman and Asa Briggs.
Photo: Shelley Nason


In May 2002, on publication of The Hitler Emigrés, BBC Radio Three devoted an evening to the topic, which Daniel presented.

As a long-time member (and former Chairman) of the London Philharmonic Choir, Daniel has always had a strong and informed interest in music and musicians. His books on the Amadeus Quartet and Plácido Domingo combine close-up portraiture of the artists concerned with the broader brush of the social historian.

Alongside his work in the academic world and the BBC, Daniel has maintained a busy and successful freelance career as author and lecturer. He has long been regarded as an outstanding speaker on a variety of social, historical and cultural topics. In 2002 and 2006, Daniel undertook a two-month, round-the-world lecture-and-research tour, including visits to various parts of Australia, New Zealand and North America. Each year, Daniel also leads music and opera tours to some of the world's cultural capitals.

Much of Daniel's recent work has been in the fields of history and historiography. Since 2004 he has held a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research (London University) and his book Historians (based on a long-running series of quarterly essays in History Today) was published at the end of 2006.

In addition, Daniel has been commissioned by Atlantic Books to write a major book on the social and cultural history of opera, the subject of his six-part series of BBC programmes and 'OPERA NOW' feature articles in 2006-7 and a series of lectures and Study Days. The book will be published in October 2009. For more on the opera history project, go to the 'In Progress' page by clicking here.