Daniel Snowman
About Daniel Snowman
Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. Born in London to a Jewish family in 1938 and educated at Cambridge and Cornell, Daniel became a lecturer at the University of Sussex and went on to work for many years at the BBC as senior producer of radio features and documentaries. A senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), his many books include a social history of opera and a study of the cultural impact of the ‘Hitler Emigrés’ and, most recently, his memoir “Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938-2021”.
Daniel’s lectures (11)
Date
Title
30 January
A Conversation on His New Book ‘Why Not Let the Leaning Tower Collapse? And Other Essays Examining What We Think of as History'
13 February
Richard Wagner: One of the Most Celebrated (And by Others Loathed) of All the Composers of the 19th Century
12 March
The Contribution of the ‘Hitler Emigrés’ to the BBC in Its Heyday