Louvain Rees ⚰️
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
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A History of sex work in Merthyr 🍻
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
The True Origin of the 'China' nickname for Merthyr's Prostitute District.
China in Merthyr Tydfil was the most notorious area of prostitution and criminality in Victorian Wales. The problem is no-one knows why i...
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A History of sex work in Merthyr 🍻
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
The story of 'Mary the Cripple' ✍️🏻
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
Mary The Cripple: Victorian Badass
Mary The Cripple: Victorian Badass 'Lost the use of her legs walks on her hands, not read, labourer.' So reads the description of Ma...
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The story of 'Mary the Cripple' ✍️🏻
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Anyway, it's basically soft porn, and this is what you must remember when you think of the buttoned-up Victorians.
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Anyway, it's basically soft porn, and this is what you must remember when you think of the buttoned-up Victorians.
A History of sex work in Merthyr 🍻
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
The True Origin of the 'China' nickname for Merthyr's Prostitute District.
China in Merthyr Tydfil was the most notorious area of prostitution and criminality in Victorian Wales. The problem is no-one knows why i...
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A History of sex work in Merthyr 🍻
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
"This area was already notorious as a sex work and brothel area since the 1820s, and it was where prostitutes and their bullies (pimps) congregated."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-...
#Wales #History
The story of 'Mary the Cripple' ✍️🏻
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
Mary The Cripple: Victorian Badass
Mary The Cripple: Victorian Badass 'Lost the use of her legs walks on her hands, not read, labourer.' So reads the description of Ma...
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The story of 'Mary the Cripple' ✍️🏻
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
"Despite being a disabled woman living in the early Victorian period, she managed to carve out for herself a forty-year career as the head of a small criminal empire."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/06/mary...
#Wales #History
The origin of the name 'Tiger Bay' in Cardiff ⚓
"The original Tigers of Cardiff's Tiger Bay were the Victorian sex workers who earned their living in the streets around Bute Street."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-...
#Wales #History
"The original Tigers of Cardiff's Tiger Bay were the Victorian sex workers who earned their living in the streets around Bute Street."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-...
#Wales #History
The Origin of 'Tiger Bay' in Cardiff.
Following on from my blog post that uncovered the reason why the red light district of Merthyr Tydfil was nicknamed ' China ' ( found he...
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The origin of the name 'Tiger Bay' in Cardiff ⚓
"The original Tigers of Cardiff's Tiger Bay were the Victorian sex workers who earned their living in the streets around Bute Street."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-...
#Wales #History
"The original Tigers of Cardiff's Tiger Bay were the Victorian sex workers who earned their living in the streets around Bute Street."
upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-...
#Wales #History