| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Private Lives, Public Witnesses: The Individual and Society in Carmarthenshire; A Sense of Place; A Psychic Crisis? The Social Contextof Mental Illness and Suicide; 'Secret Sins': Crime and Protest; Sexuality and Tension; Spiritual Skeletons: Religion, Superstitionand Popular Culture; Conclusion: Carmarthenshire and Welsh Society; Notes; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social problems -- Wales -- Carmarthenshire -- History.
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Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- History.
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Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Social conditions.
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Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0708325572 (electronic bk.) |
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1306495024 (electronic bk.) |
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9780708325575 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306495028 (electronic bk.) |
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