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Country diary: A tangle of butterflies and battle re-enactments | Paul Evans
The Marches, Shropshire : On a day of micro-dramas past and present, we witness a Welsh victory over the English, just as it was 861 years ago I’m telling the story from a pub in the bailey opposite the ruins of Oswestry Castle. There in 1165, Henry II, the Angevin (Anglo-Norman) king of England, gathered troops from the Marcher Lords to advance on an alliance of Welsh princes for control of the Marches. The…