Inside History Live!

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Inside History Live! 19th Century Underworld 21st March 2020, 7.30, Tudor Lounge, Chester

Join Inside History in Chester for our 2nd instalment of Inside History Live! This time our guest speaker is Dr Stephen Carver, the author of The 19th Century Underworld and The Author Who Outsold Dickens.

The evening will focus on crime, corruption and controversy in the 19th Century focusing on the likes of Lizzie Borden, Burke and Hare and the Whitechapel Murders of 1888.

Books and copies of Inside History Magazine will be on sale at the event. Dr Stephen Carver will be on hand to sign books once the talk has concluded.

Venue details: Tudor Lounge, Mecca Bingo, Brookdale Place, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 3DY

Time: Saturday 21st March. 7.30pm

Price £5

Please note that the venue is upstairs with no disabled access. Help can be provided by members of staff. Venue has limited seating. For this reason we are limiting the event to 60 attendees.

Tickets will be sent via email. Please either print them at home or save to your phone for inspection.

To purchase tickets, please go to the Inside History Website

Published by Stephen Carver

Dr Stephen Carver is a literary historian, freelance editor and occasional novelist. For sixteen years he taught literature and creative writing at the University of East Anglia (where he also took his doctorate), spending three years in Japan as a professor of English at the University of Fukui. He left UEA in 2012 to become Head of Online Courses at the Unthank School of Writing (a post he held until retiring from teaching in 2018), and to work with The Literary Consultancy in London, with whom he remains affiliated. He has published numerous academic articles and is the biographer of the Victorian novelist W.H. Ainsworth. His short stories have appeared in Not-Not, Cascando, Birdsuit, and Veto, and his first novel, Shark Alley, was published in 2016. He has just published a history of the 19th century underworld for Pen & Sword, and is under contract for a further book called The Author Who Outsold Dickens.

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