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Sam Willis is a British writer and public historian. He was born on 24 April 1977 in London, England. He is best known for his work on the BBC series "Coast" and "The Great British Story: A People's History". He is also the author of several books, including "The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the English Civil War" and "The Age of Sail: A Naval History of Britain". Willis studied history at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. He has a PhD in maritime history from the University of Exeter. Willis is the co-founder of the History Hit Network, a digital platform for history content. He is also the co-founder of the History Hit TV channel, which broadcasts on Sky and Virgin Media. Willis is married to the historian and author Ruth Goodman. They have two children. As of 2021, Sam Willis' net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Age 47 years old
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Born 24 April 1977
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2017

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.

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.

2016

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.

2015

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'.

2013

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.

2012

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.

2011

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.

2010

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.

2000

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.

1977

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