Dan Snow's Visit to Eden Court

Last night, Dan Snow, TV presenter and historian visited Eden Court.  I found that even though, I'm tall, Dan Snow was still as tall as he looks on TV.

Mr Snow talked about the history of the places that he had visited, and gave a few jokes, and how he got into doing history.  One of the things he talked about was the HistoryHit.TV, an on-line website of historical programmes, a bit like Netflix, where there programmes and podcasts by Snow and other people connected to historical events and things.  Growing up, and enjoying history, it sounds interesting.  One of the pieces about it was about looking to the remains of a Scottish laird who kept jumping between supporting the Jacobites and the Redcoats so he could become a laird, but got caught out, and was executed.  The location of his remains is mystery, one source says he was buried at the Tower of London, but one myth says his followers stole his body back to his ancestral home and buried him there.  The coffin he rumoured to be however revealed that there was only a young woman inside, so the search continues.

At the end I got to ask in the Questions and Answers session at the end.  During my childhood/early teenage years, I was Dan Snow do a series called Battlefield Britain with his father, Peter.  One of the episodes of the series was a programme about Culloden.  In it, when talking about the failed attempt by the Jacobites to surprise the Redcoats, the father and son did a kilometre across the countryside, in the dark.  Peter had the latest equipment (such as night-vision), while Dan had to do it like the Jacobites did (without the night-vision).  The question I asked was who pulled the short straw for him, and if he ever got back at them for it.  His answer was that, as a presenter, he got the parts that he had to put up with in order to do his job.  Now I wish that I might have asked Neil Oliver a question when he visited.

Last night, I enjoyed Dan Snow's talk.  I hope that such an event will happen again at Eden Court.

I hope that you will come, see and enjoy at Eden Court.