Misha Glenny

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In Our Time · The Welsh Marches · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

So this relationship between the rulers and the ruled, can you tell us about a poet, Yolo Goch, and his poem to Edward III, written in what was perhaps a golden period for the lords?

Rhun Emlyn, let's go back to the beginning again.

Who were the most powerful forces in Wales when the March of Lords first started to invade?

So the Normans come in and fairly soon after they start establishing the march lands, they actually use these territories as a launch pad to invade Ireland.

Why was that?

So, Hugh Price, just as a follow-up to that, I've heard a lot of Irish historians argue to me that Ireland...

Ireland was the first colony, the first colonisation experiment of the English.

But arguably with the March of Lords, you could say that Wales was the first colony.

What do you think of that?

So, staying with you, Hugh, within the marches, there was a sort of two-tier life.

There was one law in areas known as the Welsh Rees and another law in the English Rees.

What were these Rees?

So and this persists this the urban concentration of English then the rural concentration of Welsh and Welsh speakers?

Helen, as I said, we're looking at a period of around 400 years.

Was there a culture emerging in the March lands which was distinct from either Welsh or English culture?

And the March of Lords respected Welsh culture and Welsh traditions or not?

Harin, Hughes mentioned the Magna Carta, which I found astonishing that they actually specify a legal system which is separate from both Wales and England and presumably on an equal footing.

To what extent did that develop to the marches becoming a state within a state over that long durée, as it were?

I think I ought to explain for our audience here in Hay that the chronicler who relayed that story about the messenger having to eat the seal was one Matthew Paris.

I'm not entirely sure whether it's the same Matthew Paris who presents Great Lives, but who knows?

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