The forgotten years that forged Wales
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Welsh Speaking in the Henrician Period
A map of Cornwall that has linguistic lines of Cornish speaking on it, you see a rapid sort of retreat westwards of that language over time as it retreats into its redoubts. So the what you experience then is the kind of cultural imperial ideology of the Henrician period gets not just sort of undermined, but in some ways it becomes inverted. In fact, this will make the Welsh good and loyal subjects as well. We don't need to have linguistic uniformity simply to have loyal Protestants on our western flank. And so it's an absolutely critical part of the period. Right. You have that assimilation in one sense and that assertion of a distinct identity in another,.
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