Intoxicants and Early Modernity: England, 1580-1740. We’re an @ESRC research project exploring #earlymodern alcohol, tobacco, coffee, and tea. Some #dhist.
Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850" in which James Brown enters the architecture of intoxication — dram shops, gin halls, barbershops — exploring the spaces that catered to pleasure or evil, depending who you asked: https://t.co/0uXe8EVavM
The rows were what I most wanted to experience in Chester for @MiddlingCulture - double decker town with fascinating views between levels. Was even serenaded by a man from the street below late last night - @intoxproject territory all round!
Our virtual exhibition is now live! Imagined as a digital scrapbook, it brings together nearly 1,500 exhibits relating to new intoxicants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm, 1600–1850. We hope you like it and find it useful! https://t.co/zqDXXC0lBu ☕️🌿🍫💊
Join us for the online launch of our virtual exhibition! Conceived as a digital scrapbook, the resource brings together nearly 1,500 ‘scraps’ relating to new intoxicants in our case study cities. Wed 16 November, 1–2pm GMT; register here: https://t.co/PFuGTbl4aU
Sheffieldites! This Saturday, join us @FestivalMind for Love and Intoxication in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace, a celebration of Ben Jonson’s The New Inn and its intimate connections with Bolsover Castle: https://t.co/bF2lRpN998
Early modern hangover cure: raw egg and sugar poured between mugs until there is a 'foam'. Recommended by 'Sargeant Mundy' who was a 'hard drinker' and assiduously recorded by Eusebius Ashby in his recipe book. Enough to make anyone sober up... In @NLM_NIH#histmed
New on the blog; guest author @FolderolFreya explores saloop, a fascinating but little known hot beverage that was popular in early modern London:
https://t.co/98VCyNrXwg 🍵
New on the blog; guest author Suzan van Dijk from @HuygensING explores new intoxicants in the correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière: https://t.co/bU4tTIxAsj ✉️
Our next seminar is on'Policing Women's Bodies', inspired by comments on female drinking in the draft WHO report earlier this year. Our roundtable will include a diverse range of experts followed by the usual discussion. Join us on 13 Dec 21 at 12.00 GMT. https://t.co/nnvqHo3dcR.
New project article klaxon! Anna Knutsson and Hanna Hodacs explore coffee bans in C18th Stockholm and how they brought labour opportunities and income to the city’s poor women. Open access with @ScanEconHisRev: https://t.co/IH5Il4dLrI ☕️🚫
Excited to announce the preliminary program and registration for #UKRIFLF 'Tobacco through Time: #Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the #History and Legacy of the use and Commodification of Tobacco'. #Archaeology#STEM.
https://t.co/LWDWuDWznC
Our third talk is from @DrDouglasSmall, who will be exploring cocaine in the Sherlock Holmes stories! This Wednesday, 1–2pm BST. Register here: https://t.co/tYwY5zyB3j 💊
Our second talk is from our own Hanna Hodacs and Anna Knutsson, who will be exploring female underground coffee culture in eighteenth-century Stockholm (in which coffee was banned! 😱). Wednesday, 1–2pm BST. Register here: https://t.co/uOvPSckTTJ ☕️
New on the blog; a fantastic lecture by @WarwickHistory’s Professor Maxine Berg on sugar, slavery, and the industrial revolution, which we co-hosted (in person!) last week: https://t.co/yHWzgcVo9G 🎥
Over thirty talks from our summer conference Intoxicating Spaces: Global and Comparative Perspectives are now available on our website and YouTube channel. Get them while they’re hot! https://t.co/x3dMcQqW0E 🌍🌿📽️
New project event klaxon! Join us next Tuesday (5 Oct, 5–6:30pm CET) for a panel discussion on Intoxicating Spaces and Urban Policy: Negotiating Public Space and Drug Consumption. Free and online; further info and registration: https://t.co/irfbKgY2YN
The programme for S3 of our online seminar series What’s Your Poison? is now live! Five free talks showcasing new work on spices, coffee, cocaine, opium, and rum, and all are welcome. We start next Wed (29 Sep); find out more and register here: https://t.co/qAkDuFIXBA 🌶☕️💊🌿🥃
New on the website; @dr_jrbrown, Connor Plunkett, and @YatesAggi take a deep, data-driven dive into Robert Hooke’s C17th world of intoxicants, based on his extraordinarily rich diary: https://t.co/VQsjpwW2ZL