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Hi,
‘The Story of Wales’
By: Huw Edwards BBC
a costly sales presentation for some sort of Independent Wales & support of the tiny Nationalist minority.
As a history of the Welsh Region goes it is extremely selective and very misleading.
Little wonder the history misrepresents Wales, as being an ancient and important ‘Nation’, conveniently overlooking the tiny population, in its day, was a warring & squabbling Region of small and disparate groups led by a succession of rural brigands, many of whom were particularly brutal.
The bias omits to inform the target of this costly sales propaganda that the ONLY time in the history of the Welsh Region that it could in any sense be described as a single unit was when most of the Brigands in the Welsh Region to the West of Offa’s Dyke, who styled themselves Princes, fell under the control of one of them, after a series of battles, intrigues and murders at the hand of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn.
Consider:
When ‘Welsh Nationalists’ talk about ‘restoring’ Wales’s independence, what do they actually mean?
Only once, for a brief period more than 1,000 years ago, was Wales, in any way, an ‘independent nation’. That was between 1055 and 1063AD, when under the rule of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn. Even during those 8 years there were areas of the Welsh Region that were still unconquered by Grufydd ap Llewellyn, such as the South West, Glamorgan & Monmouthshire, though to be fair, for a brief period Grufydd ap Llewellyn held sway over much of Herefordshire!
Aside from Grufydd ap Llewellyn’s eight-year reign, Wales has never been in any sense an independent ‘nation’, let alone one conquered by England (a narrative repeatedly pushed by Welsh nationalists).
The terrain made it very difficult to govern (north-south transport links remain poor to this day), and internal rivalries meant the term ‘Wales’ really referred to a geographic entity rather than an independent nation, the Region beyond Offa’s Dyke..
Wales’s history, until the Industrial Revolution can be summed up as one of rivalling princes, each with their own territory, who would fight each other, and were willing to both fight against and co-operate with English sovereigns, depending on the circumstances.
Neil Kinnocks factual opposition to Nationalist aspirations and misrepresentations of Wales are worthy of note when Kinnock campaigned successfully against the creation of a Welsh Assembly in 1979, and said of the Welsh identity: “Between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century Wales had practically no history at all, and even before that it was the history of rural brigands who have been ennobled by being called princes.”
It is also important to keep a sense of perspective about just how small a population Wales had before the Industrial Revolution. In 1536, the population was around 278,000. By 1620, it had risen to 360,000. In other words, only 400 years ago, the population of the whole of Wales was about the same as that of modern-day Cardiff.
It was the industrial revolution of the late 1700s started to modernise the Welsh Region as it followed the effects in the rest of Britain and when the English canal system was completed the many Irish navvies (the navigators who built the inland waterways) on route home to Ireland passed through the Welsh Region and many of them stayed, building the labour force for the coal and ore mines and the newly burgeoning steel industry.
As you will by now realise Huw Edwards’ sales promotion of Welsh Nationalism is a very skewed misrepresentation of reality in the pretence of being a documentary history. What you may not be aware of is the fact that Huw Edwards’ parents were both tunnel visioned Nationalists with senior positions in Plaid Cymru and although their son has lived outside the Welsh Region for well over 30 years he has been cautioned by his employers for his unprofessional behaviour and has been ordered to remove his Nationalist fantasising and posturings on various occassions!
For a brief but far more accurate presentation of facts than ‘The Story of Wales’ may I commend https://walesandwelsh.wordpress.com/crachach-nationalism/
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
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in the interest of accuracy material in the main text in blue was written by someone other than myself.
When in black text the wording ‘Welsh Language’ means the ‘Language of the peoples of Wales’ and is therefore the majority language ie ‘English’
The ancient language of parts of Wales, varied as it is, as spoken by a tiny minority in Wales is called ‘Welsh’ or ‘the ancient Welsh language’
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Of Wales & The Welsh 
Wow, this is just how I saw it.
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