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🍺 Pints & Perspectives at The Packhorse.Dickens & Prisons with storyteller Drift Snowbarger, whose style sits somewhere between gripping storytelling and stand-up comedy.
Step into the darker side of history with an evening that’s as fascinating as it is thought-provoking!
Expect tales not of grand heroes, but of ordinary lives navigating the absurd, the harsh, and occasionally, the unexpectedly triumphant.
Dickensian – 1. Of or reminiscent of the novels of Charles Dickens and his era.
Dickensian – 2. Poverty, squalor, poor social conditions.
Prison – A building in which criminals are held as punishment.
You did not want to do time in a Dickensian prison. The mantra of the time was ‘Hard Board, Hard Fare, Hard Labour’. The bed was hard, the food was hard, the work was hard. There was the ‘Separate System’. The ‘Silent System’. Drift vividly describes and brings to life conditions in the Dickensian prison – and makes us glad we never experienced it.
But why did Dickens take such an interest in prisons – writing about prisons in his novels, visiting prisons, taking an active interest in prisons and prison reform? Why did he attend public executions? Did Dickens help bring about prison reform?
Take a fascinating dive into a dark, hidden – and sometimes gruesome – part of our history.
And perhaps ask if we have learnt anything in the last 200 years.
‘Dickensian prison is a bit of a grim story, but Drift manages to tell the story so well, with compassion and humour’.
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The Packhorse, Bath, United Kingdom
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