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

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.

[2] In 2013, he presented a three-part series for BBC4 on the cultural history of shipwrecks[3] 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 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In 2010, he made a discovery in the British Library of previously unpublished naval dispatches from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, which became the subject of his 2013 book, In The Hour of Victory.