Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

Historian Dan Snow explains to Michael Douglas how the near stalemate of trench warfare in WW1 was relieved by the introduction of tanks, aircraft and shells. We see how protection was provided ...

Dan Snow:Hello, I'm Dan Snow. When we look back at World War One, the trenches are among the first things that come to mind. Those scars on the battlefield that played such a key role in the ...

Presenter Dan Snow discusses why The Battle of Passchendaele was such a unique moment in the First World War. Passchendaele. The word itself conjures up an image of hell. A shattered landscape ...

Tanks were invented in Britain. Historian Dan Snow describes the earliest versions and charts how they developed and were increasingly used in battle during WW1. We hear how intrigued the British ...

DAN SNOW:Hello, I'm Dan Snow. When thinking about the causalities of World War One the sort of images that first come to mind are those of the trenches, poppy fields and the graves marked out in ...

Through the medium of sand art, Dan Snow recreates a map of Europe on the beach in Blackpool. Dan’s sand map will reveal the geopolitics of the continent as it stood on the brink of war.

videoBritain and the start of World War One In this short film for secondary schools Dan Snow uses the medium of sand art to recreate the map of Europe in 1914, and explain why Britain entered the ...

What was a soldier’s food like in WW1? VideoWhat was a soldier’s food like in WW1? Dan Snow compares the food rations for a British soldier in WW1 with those for a German. 3:02 How Britain’s ...

Historian Dan Snow explains to Michael Douglas how the near stalemate of trench warfare in WW1 was relieved by the introduction of tanks, aircraft and shells. We see how protection was provided ...