Governing a medieval borderland: The Council of the Marches of Wales

Governing a medieval borderland: The Council of the Marches of Wales Dr Rachael Harkes from the University of Bristol investigates governance in a medieval borderland, focusing on the Council of the Marches of Wales. The ‘March of Wales’ – as it was known in the Middle Ages – ran down the present-day Welsh-English border, and along the southern coast of Wales all the way out to Pembrokeshire. It was a border region, invaded and then colonised by the Normans and their successors between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.