Location: Westwood Books
Website: https://www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/collections/events/products/murder-on-the-front-page
Festival: This event is part of Sedbergh Book Festival 2023
Admission: Free but tickets must be booked in advance
Thomas de Quincey, author, poet and opium addict, was editor of the Westmorland Gazetter for eighteeen months during 1818-19. JC Briggs explores some of the extraordinary and sometimes gruesome stories on the front pages of our local newspapaer in the nineteenth century
Tickets are available online at www.westwoodbooks.co.uk/collections/events/products/murder-on-the-front-page