Dr Sam Willis is an award-winning historian, archaeologist and broadcaster. His work takes him on adventures all over the world.
Latest Project: I am currently filming a three-part series on the history of weapons for the BBC. From Viking axes to the Vickers machine gun, I explain how our history and identity has been shaped by weapons of war.
I have been an Anglo-Saxon warrior, a medieval monk, a swordsman, a crossbowman, an archer, a tudor assassin, a redcoat, a rifleman, an artilleryman, a policeman, and a First World War machine gunner. And it has been ace.
