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We are a research project exploring the production, trade, legislation, consumption, and culture (social and material) of intoxicants in England between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Event Report: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present
30 May 2017
Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons. In public debates around intoxicants, political and medical commentators tend to focus on their biological, neurological,...
Intoxicants and Empire c.1600-1800: Space and Material Culture
17 April 2017
Eighteenth-century engraving of a hookah, or Indian bubble-pipe. Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0). Seminar Room A, Research Department, V&A Friday 21 April-Saturday 22 April...
Project Event: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present
8 September 2016
Wellcome Library, London (CC BY 4.0) and Wikimedia Commons. Palace of Westminster Monday 10 October 2016 One of our key research themes is intoxicants, politics, and governance....
Using Your Noggin: Identifying Intoxicating Objects
5 September 2016
Mug Shot: Getting hands-on with a surviving artefact from Chester. As the project nears its conclusion, and with data collection from manuscript sources now complete, we’re starting...