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The issue of alcohol has never been far from British politics. Initially, governments needed to control its sale for public order reasons and because it was a m

A 2017 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award winner *********************************************** This book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic d

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption af

This book is about alcoholic drink, political parties, and pressure groups. From the 1870s into the 1920s, excessive drinking by urban workers frightened the ma

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that s