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Watch “By her own consent”: Mary Ashford and Rape Culture in the Georgian Era

14 December 2020Naomi Clifford

A chance to see the talk I delivered online for Vauxhall History and South Lambeth Library on 8 December 2020. I explore the story of Mary Ashford’s murder in 1817 and look at what it tells us about rape in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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