Sex, Sects and Society
’Pain and Pleasure’: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870-1945
Distributed for University of Wales Press
448 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2018
Review Quotes
Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, former Director of the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
"Russell Davies has written an enthralling book which defies convention by focusing on how the obsession with pain and death, moral excess and squeamishness, black humour and disenchantment became an integral part of the welsh psyche in modern times. He has become an expert in peeping into nooks and crannies which historians either deliberately or inadvertently avoid."
Dr Martin Johnes, Swansea University
"Russell Davies is a welcome voice in Welsh history. He steps beyond the normal categorisations and allows a picture of Wales to emerge full of human vitality, complexity and frailty. His history is not one that looks solely for evidence of Welsh distinction and labour heroism, but rather one that explores the lived Welsh experiences in all their variety."
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