Join us for an evening in conversation with Angela Muir about her new book Rogues, Rakes and Robbers When: 17/9/26 18:30 start (doors 18:15) Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There will be books available to buy at the event or you can preorder here. Book - £18.99 (£2 off the ticket price if you preorder the book) There is an option to pay what you can as we would like to keep this event accessible for all. There is a limited number of PWYC tickets so please only use it if you need to. Follow this link for PWYC About the book: Exploring detailed accounts of historic crime is one of the best ways to catch a glimpse of a society and its culture decades and centuries later. Of course, stories of crime and deviance are intriguing in their own right; but through understanding the context in which they were committed, how they were made sense of, and how communities and officials responded to them, we can gain incredible insight into life at that time and place. On 20 October 1799 at Pensieri in Anglesey, a fire breaks out, destroying cart house, corn, haystacks and timber. A young woman is seen running from the scene – but what secrets drove her to set the fire? Uncover the tales of real-life murders, manslaughters, assaults and arson that took place in Georgian Wales and the borders, which together give us a window onto life for ordinary, common people – whose lives would otherwise be lost from the historical record. From courtship rituals to the value of horses, Georgian attitudes to sex work and insanity, vulnerable adults and fraud, each chapter uses documents from Wales’s Court of Great Sessions to illuminate the past. About the author: Dr Angela Muir is an academic historian specialising in gender, crime and deviance in Wales and England during the long eighteenth century (roughly 1680 to 1830) and its parallels with today. Rogues, Rakes and Robbers is her first work of narrative non-fiction for a popular audience. Accessibility: We ask in our confirmation email if you have any access needs, we will do everything we can to accommodate them. If you would like to reach out before booking you can email us lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk or use our contact form. We are wheelchair accessible. We have a temporary ramp we can put out to get in over the small step and once inside the shop floor is even. If you want to find out more about how to get here, check out our about page. Our refund policy: If you can't make the event anymore after you've booked do let us know. If you tell us 24 or more hours before the event we will be able to refund your ticket price minus the processing fee that Shopify charges us for the original transaction.
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