Anthony Rhys
Notorious: Cardiff. Victorian and Edwardian social, sexwork and criminal history.
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Saturday, 17 August 2019
Cardiff Scandal: The Life of Honora Shaughnessy.
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To pre-warn you this is a shocking and upsetting life history that includes rape, institutionalised sexual abuse, and domestic violence...
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Friday, 7 June 2019
The Short Life of Dolly Kelly
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This is Dorothy Kelly, known to her friends as Dolly. She is 23 in this photograph. It is in the same style as small passport sized photo...
Monday, 6 August 2018
The Twelve Day Death of Eliza Lewis
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This one is perhaps one of the darkest stories I have come across in my research and it involved two Charlotte Street women. First we have...
Sunday, 20 August 2017
Mary No-Nose: Cardiff Prostitute Nicknames
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Cranky & Bristol Ann have a fight in 1841. Nicknames were common throughout Wales as lots of people had the same first names or sur...
Friday, 17 March 2017
The Whore and the Mayoress: The Death of Bristol Eliza.
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The Golden Cross: Whitmore Lane on the left c.1890. Image National Library of Wales. The Whore and the Mayoress: The Death of Bristol E...
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