Drink and Sobriety in England 1815–1872

Harrison, Brian

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“…A Critical Bibliography," updated by David Gutzke in his wider alcohol bibliography in 1996. 3 (1873). 4 The giants of UK nineteenth-century temperance history, however, responsible for later conceptions (and sometimes mis-conceptions) of temperance, are (James) Dawson Burns (1828Burns ( -1909 and Peter Turner Winskill (1834-1912).…”

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Temperance Past and Present: Thoughts on Radical Temperance

McAllister¹

2019

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs

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This introduction to the special issue "Temperance, Past and Present" identifies main themes of the articles and associated conference, gives a brief historiography of temperance, and surveys "new temperance." Article In 2018, 70 scholars and third-sector workers met at the home of the Livesey Temperance Archive, for a groundbreaking conference: "Radical Temperance: social change and drink, from teetotalism to Dry January," (June 28-9 th , 2018 at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK). This volume brings together papers from that conference to form the first temperance-specific issue of SHAD, to offer a forum for discussion of historical and contemporary concepts of temperance. A term once considered outmoded in many circles, "temperance" is now experiencing something of a renaissance. The conference attracted historians, sociologists, literature specialists, and those working in the third sector to support those with alcohol-related issues, from Australia, Japan, Europe (including Scandinavia), around the US, Canada, and across the UK, and the international and disciplinary spread of papers, presentations, roundtables, and discussions by over 70 participants demonstrated the high degree of current interest in this field. The present collection presents, we hope, a representative selection. It also harks back to a key element of the original name of the present Alcohol and Drugs History Society, founded as The Alcohol and Temperance History Group in 1979, and the focus upon debate and variety of approach, as well as the interplay between past and present, reflect ongoing dialogues in the study of addiction to and regulation of substances. But, more significantly, the conference was an illustration of the

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2019

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“…The difficulties of assessing the extent of the "drinking problem" have been well described. 37 Oral evidence suggests that there was considerably more steady drinking in Preston than in Lancaster and Barrow, and yet the prosecutions for drunkenness would seem to belie this. 38 It is not easy to explain these discrepancies.…”

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Working-Class Standards of living in Three Lancashire Towns, 1890–1914

Roberts¹

1982

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This article examines some aspects of working-class standards of living in three Lancashire towns, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancaster and Preston, in the period 1890 to 1914. By looking on one hand at a number of externally determined factors, such as real wages and the cost of living, and on the other at the strategies with which the working-class families attempted to maximise their standards of living, an assessment is made of the relative success of these various strategies, particularly at periods when wages were on or below the poverty line. Particular stress is laid on evidence from Preston, in part because it has not previously been reported, 1 but also because there appear to be a number of significant variations between Preston on the one hand, and Barrow and Lancaster on the other, when placed in apparently similar intrinsic conditions and in comparatively close geographical proximity to each other. These variations underline the extent to which generalisations derived principally from statistical data may be misleading, and also the importance of looking at individual discrete communities before relying on theoretical models of the relationship between, for example, income from primary employment and standards of living. If it is possible to demonstrate that working-class people in some towns were more successful than their near neighbours in combating poverty, we need to identify the reasons for these differences. Factors discussed include the economy of Preston compared with Barrow and Lancaster, comparisons of wage rates, the employment of women and its effects, and diets (including the use of allotments), the effects of drinking, as well as a look at possible negative factors, such as family size, and housing and hygiene.

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Dionysian Myths and Alcoholic Realities

Taylor

1999

Bacchus in Romantic England

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Drink and Sobriety in England 1815–1872

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Temperance Past and Present: Thoughts on Radical Temperance

Temperance Past and Present: Thoughts on Radical Temperance

Working-Class Standards of living in Three Lancashire Towns, 1890–1914

Dionysian Myths and Alcoholic Realities

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