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    Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
    Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
    Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
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    Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

    By David Russell Davies

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    Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Wales Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2012
    ISBN9781783165452
    Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
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    David Russell Davies

    Russell Davies is a broadcaster and writer; he is the author of Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870–1920; Hope and Heartbreak: a Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1776–1870, and People, Places and Passions: Pain and Pleasure, a Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945.

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