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Name	Sam Willis
First Name	Sam
Last Name	Willis
Occupation	Historian
Birthday	April 24
Birth Year	1977
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Home Town	England
Birth Country	United Kingdom
Birth Sign	Aries
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Sam Willis Biography

Sam Willis is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on April 24, 1977 in England, United Kingdom. In 2013 He was part of the team who recreated In 2013, he was a member of the team that recreated John Wesley Powell‘s 1869 voyage down the Colorado River in the BBC series Operation Grand Canyon.’s 1869 expedition through the Colorado River in the BBC series Operation Grand Canyon.

He studied History and Archaeology at the University of Exeter, graduating in 2000. Willis went on to earn a PhD in Naval History from the same university, studying under Professor Nicholas Rodger. He also went on to research for an MA in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Bristol where he studied under Professor Mark Horton.

In 2010 he made a discovery in the British Library of previously unpublished naval dispatches from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars which became the subject of his 2013 book, In The Hour of Victory.

He was a resident of Devon, England.

He is the writer of nearly twelve historical books, which include The Fighting Ships series and several other nonfiction titles on naval historical events.

Samuel Bruce Adlam Willis (born 24 April 1977) is a British historian, television presenter and writer. He lives in Devon.

Sam Willis Net Worth

Sam is one of the richest Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sam Willis's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

The year 2000 was the time he received his degree at Exeter University with a degree in archeology and history. The next step was to complete his doctorate in naval historians from the same university and also master’s degree in marine archeology at Bristol University. University of Bristol.

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In 2013 he presented a three-part series for BBC4 on the cultural history of Shipwrecks and was one of the nine-man crew that recreated John Wesley Powell’s epic uncharted 1869 voyage down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in Whitehall boats, that was filmed and broadcast by BBC2 in January 2014. In October 2014 he presented a three-part series on Castles for BBC4: Castles: Britain’s Fortified History.

In October 2015 he presented another three-part series for BBC4 Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues. In 2016 the BBC broadcast The Silk Road, a series following Willis’s journey from Xi’an to Venice. Willis’s first series for National Geographic, Nazi Weird War Two, was broadcast in December 2016. The show in which Willis teams up with Robert Joe, an Urban Explorer, has been described as ‘one of the oddest partnerships since Mulder and Scully’.

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He made numerous appearances on TV and Radio as an expert contributor before he presented Nelson’s Caribbean Hell-Hole, a 2012 film for BBC4 about the excavation of a mass burial site near the British naval dockyard at English Harbour in Antigua.

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Since 2016, Willis has hosted the Histories of the Unexpected podcast with Professor James Daybell, with a book based on the series published by Atlantic Books in 2018. The podcast is part of the “History Hit Network”, created by Dan Snow, with whom Willis had travelled down the Grand Canyon.

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In 2011 he was awarded the Society for Nautical Research’s Anderson Medal for his biography of the naval battle The Glorious First of June, the final instalment of his Hearts of Oak Trilogy.

In early 2017 Willis presented another three-part series on the evolution of British arms and weaponry, in the same format as his 2014 series on castles, again for BBC4: Sword, Musket and Machine Gun: Britain’s Armed History. In 2017 Willis presented two other 3-part TV series: Maritime Silk Road Reborn for National Geographic and Invasion! for BBC Four.

Facts & Trivia

Sam Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sam Willis celebrates birthday on April 24 of every year.

Since 2017, Willis has co-organised and delivered several onsite lectures in The History Masterclass project, a series of seminar sessions delivered by well-known public historians.

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