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There are very few legal institutions more ubiquitous across British history than marriage.

But what motivated people in the past to get married?

What inspired traditional wedding vows?

And when was Britain's first divorce.

Speaking to Rachel Dinning for today's episode,

the legal historian Rebecca Probert explores the changes in societal and legal views on marriage in England and Wales

over their last 500 years. So starting off with a very sweeping question, who

historically has decided what constituted a marriage and

what its implications were? In 1500 which will take us our starting point today,

marriage in England and Wales is under the

the control of the Catholic Church.

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