Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.

Today, this sparkling October day is the 900 and something anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.

Let's see now at 20, 10, 6, 6, it's 46 years, 9, 15,

fourth anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.

Fort on this day in 10, 6, 6, that famous year.

Now we hear it history at light bring you all sorts of stories from the past, some familiar, others, not so much.

But this one every year, see some of our biggest spikes of traffic.

People out there love 10, 66, they love the year of conquest.

Don't shoot the messenger.

So this year we have that we did yesterday's podcast featuring two brilliant academics talking about the context of the invasions of 10, 6, 6,

now we got one of the best, one of the best, Mark Morris, Dr. Mark Morris.

He's a best-selling author.

He's an independent scholar of the Middle Ages.

He's a friend of the parties, a friend of mine, he's a cool guy.

He and I walked around the field of Hastings a week or two ago and recorded this conversation about the fighting that took place on that field.

No one knows this period better than he does, no one knows the sources better than he does, and he's a brilliant communicator as you'll hear.

Now this is a very, very long extended version of an interview that appears in our feature lent documentary about the invasions of 10, 66.

We visited the north of England, we visited the south coast of England, we went all over the place.

And you can watch that on History Hit TV because it's Hastings, we have got our ridiculous offer, which frankly drives me crazy, but our CEO James is always love throwing out this one at this time of year.

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That gets you a month of free and then the first three months after that, just one pound euro or dollar each of those months.

It's insane. That you'll be deep into 2021, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview with the one and only Mark Morris.

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