Secret Sins

Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

• Author(s): David Russell Davies,
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Pages: 327
• ISBN_10: 0708325572
  ISBN_13: 9780708325575
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Social Science / Sociology / Rural , History / Social History , History / Modern / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / General ,

Description:... 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.