Hello History Hit listeners, as you are listening to this right now at this exact second I am

currently on an epic cross-country road trip of England. 600 miles and 1 million years of history

from the first humans through to Stonehenge, Dovercastle, Hastings up to Ironbridge in the

Black Country and to the northeast where I'm visiting a Cold War bunker in York.

I want to hear from you. I want to do more stops. Tell me when I should stop. Any local tips or

hints that you want to share or you want to see me report on on my social media channels and Twitter

and Instagram etc. just send me a message ds.hh at historyhit.com. That's delta Sierra.

. hotel hotel at historyhit.com or tweet me at the History Guy. You can keep up with the road trip

this week on Instagram and Twitter at the History Guy on both and then you can hear the whole thing as a

podcast series next week. Thanks and enjoy this episode.

Hello everyone, Mark and Dan's knows history at I am in South Africa. I've just climbed

Table Mountain on the way to a special history hit project that you're going to be hearing about soon

and I thought I'd rest up halfway through the journey with a little, little assent of Table Mountain

a beautiful thing looking down on the azure waters of the Atlantic, Robin Island where Nelson Mandela

was kept prisoner. The castle of good hope built by the dutch, the fort now lying at the heart of Cape Town.

What a historic city. Lying beneath me as I climbed up. This podcast does have something to do with

Africa because this podcast is a conversation with Saul David, professor of military history at the

University of Western Buckingham, a best-selling author, legendary broadcaster TV presenter,

and we talked about the Zulu Wars. A book he wrote years ago, but a subject that has continued to

define his career and gain importance. We talked about the remarkable Anglo-Zulu War that was raging

this month in 1879, one of the most famous defeats and one of the most famous victories in British

history as you'll hear about coming up. This podcast will be broadcast on History at TV,

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