Alcohol and Drugs History Society

Drink in Victorian Norwich: Part IV (article)

Rob Donovan, "Drink in Victorian Norwich: Part IV," Brewery History: The Journal of the Brewery History Society 137 (Autumn 2010): 73-166.

Southern evangelicals and alcohol, 1865-1915 (article)

Michael Lewis, "Keeping Sin from Sacred Spaces: Southern Evangelicals and the Socio-Legal Control of Alcohol, 1865-1915," Southern Cultures 15/2 (Summer 2009): 40-60.

Drink and temperance in Oxford, Ohio

Newspaper article that looks at drink and temperance in Oxford, Ohio, beginning with its first tavern in 1816.

http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/column-oxford-alcohol-battle-as-old-as-citys-first-tavern-1001732.html

Women in English public houses, 1880s-1970s (dissertation)

Barbara Gleiss, "Women in Public Houses.  A Historic Analysis of the Social and Economic Role of Women Patronizing English Public Houses, 1880-1970s" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Vienna, 2009).  In English.  Full text is available online.

Coming of age birthday cards and drinking culture (article)

Hilda Loughran, "Eighteen and Celebrating: Birthday Cards and Drinking Culture," Journal of Youth Studies 13/6 (December 2010): 631-645.  Based on Irish card stores.

Alcohol Ranked Most Harmful Drug

Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. Read more here.

Prehistory of alcohol deregulation in Australia (article)

Robin Room, "The Long Reaction against the Wowser: The Prehistory of Alcohol Deregulation in Australia," Health Society Review (June 2010).

http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201006/2101245641.html

Four Loco: blackout in a can?

Four Loco, invented in 2005 by Ohio State grads, is a controversial drink sometimes called "blackout in a can" or "liquid crack."  Sold in large cans, it has as much alcohol as six cans of light beer, as much caffeine as two cups of coffee, and as many calories as a McDonalds cheeseburger happy meal with a Coke. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/four-loko-by-the-numbers_n_774760.html

Intoxicants and intoxication in historical and cultural perspective (conference)

INTOXICANTS AND INTOXICATION IN CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE   3 DAY CONFERENCE  TUESDAY 20th JULY - THURSDAY 22nd JULY 2010   CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE   Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council    TUESDAY 20TH JULY  11.30 – 1.00   Lunch and Registration   1.00 – 1.10      Introductions -  Angela McShane and Phil Withington   1.10 – 2.00      Key Note - David Courtwright, University of North Florida  Intoxication, Limbic Capitalism, and Pleasure Meccas                         2.00 – 3.20     Panel One - Chair: James Kneale, UCL Being Affected by Alcohol in the Night-Time City Robert Shaw, Durham University   Addictive Architecture: The Crystal Palace, Gin Palaces and Women's Desire Julia Skelly, Queen’s University, Canada   Everything in its Right Place: Drinking Places and Social Spaces in Nineteenth Century Mexico Deborah Toner, University of Warwick 3.20 – 3.40   Tea   3.40 – 5.20    Panel Two - Chair: David Clemis, Mount Royal Addict Doctors and Drug Addiction Treatment in Denmark,  1870-1955                    Jesper Vaczy Kragh, University of Copenhagen   Whose Intoxication is it Anyway? Liquor Control and Ideas of Addiction in Ontario, 1900-1945 Dan Malleck, Brock University, Canada   ‘Physical and Moral Havoc’: Methylated Spirits and Deviant Drinking in Interwar Britain Stella Moss, University of Oxford                      ‘Getting High’: Work In Progress Screening                    Victor Silverman, Pomona College USA                       5.30 – 6.20    Keynote - Martin Jones, University of Cambridge Intoxicants in the Deep Human Past 7.00             Reception and Finger Buffet       WEDNESDAY 21ST JULY  9.00 – 9.50    Keynote - Christine Guth, V&A Intoxication and Otherness in Japanese Visual Culture   10.00 – 11.40  Panel Three - Chair: Ciaran Regan, UCD Representing the Labor of Opium in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British India Hope Marie Childers, UCLA   The Taste of Opium: Opium Monopoly and its Techno-scientific Practices in Colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945 Hung Bin Hsu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan   Means and Methods of Intoxicant Use: Paraphernalia of Drug Giving and Taking Michael Montagne, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Boston                                            Intoxicants in Native North America                    Sean Rafferty, University of Albany   11.40 – 12.00  Coffee  12.00 – 1.20  Panel Four - Chair: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick                    Target America: Visual Culture and the Science of the                    Hijacked Brain                    Timothy Hickman, University of Lancaster   Exclusion/Inclusion: The Imagery of Drinking and Drunkenness in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe Thomas Nichols, University of Aberdeen                       Projecting Addiction: Film and the Visual Imaginary                     Robert Stephens, Virginia Tech   1.20 – 2.00    Lunch   2.00 – 3.40    Panel Five - Chair: James Nicholls, Bath Spa Liquid Lives: Mariners and Intoxicants in an Early Modern Port                    James Brown, University of Oxford                      Brenda Dean Paul: Drug Addict Christopher Hallam, LSHTM   Becoming "Tight" While Advocating Temperance? College Student Drinking in Antebellum America Michael Hevel, University of Iowa                      Intoxication in the American Civil War                    Scott Martin, Bowling Green State University   3.40 – 4.00   Tea   4.00 – 5.40   Panel Six - Chair: John Chartres, University of Leeds Politics, Porter, and Poitin: Contesting Visions of Alcohol Consumption in Eighteenth Century Ireland Tanya Cassidy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada             Liquor Licences and Spirit Boycotts: The Struggle to Control Liquor in Ibadan and Abeokuta, Southern Nigeria, 1908-9                    Simon Heap, Plan International   Drinking for Power: The Great British Drinking Contest of the late-Georgian Era                    Charles Ludington, Duke University   Wine, Intoxication and the Politics of Corruption in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm                    Karin Sennefelt, Uppsala University   6.00 – 6.50    Keynote - Allen Grieco, Florence "I should doe no small benefite…if that I shoulde set out a booke of the natures of wines"; or, Teaching Consumers to Drink Wine in Late Sixteenth-Century England   7.30             Dinner        THURSDAY 22ND JULY 9.00 – 9.50    Keynote - Tom Brennan, US Naval Academy  Voices in the Tavern: A Comparative Perspective on Public Drinking.     10.00 – 11.40  Panel Seven - Chair:  Rebecca Flemming, Cambridge The Origins of Inebriation: Archaeological Evidence for the Use of Alcohol and Drugs in Prehistoric Europe Elisa Guerra Doce, University of Valladolid, Spain   ‘It puts good reason in our brains’: Popular Understandings of the Intoxicating Effects of Alcohol in Seventeenth-Century England Mark Hailwood, University of Warwick   ‘Drinking somewhat liberally': the Role of Alcohol and Intoxication in the 1641 Depositions Annaleigh Margey, University of Aberdeen   From Panacea to Pariah: Psychedelic Drugs and the Problem of Experience                    Sarah Shortall, Harvard University   11.40 – 12.00 Coffee   12.00 – 1.20   Panel Eight - Chair: David Beckingham, Cambridge Drinking Places: the histories of drinking cultures in Stoke-on-Trent and Eden                    Mark Jayne, University of Manchester   Clubbing, Drugs, Intoxication and the Dance Scene: A Global Perspective                    Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis, Alemeda, CA                       From Dependence to Binge: Alcohol in Nottingham 1950-2007                     Jane McGregor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical                     Medicine  1.20 – 2.00    Lunch   2.00 – 3.40    Panel Nine - Chair: David Anderson, University of Oxford The Intemperate Reich? The Conception and Consumption of Intoxicants inTwentieth-Century Germany Victoria Harris, University of Cambridge                       Anti-Opium Rhetoric in the Age of Empire: Japan, 1895-1945                     Miriam Kingsberg, University of Colorado at Boulder   The Making of the National Drug Problem in Pre-Civil War Nigeria: the Colonial State, Doctors and Soldiers on Indian Hemp Gernot Klantschnig, University of Nottingham   From Moral Reform to Bio-Politics? The Anti-Alcohol Movement, 1870-1940                    Jana Tschurenev and Nikolay Kamenov, Swiss Federal                    Institute of Technology, Zurich 3.40 – 4.00    Tea   4.00 – 5.00    Roundtable - Led by Virginia Berridge, LSHM     Conference Ends

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Drinking at home in England (article)

Sarah L. Holloway, Mark Jayne and Gill Valentin, "'Sainsbury's Is My Local': English Alcohol Policy, Domestic Drinking Practices and the Meaning of Home," Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33/4 (October 2008): 532-547.  Sainsbury is a grocery chain.  See also Mark Janes, Gill Valentin, and Sarah L. Holloway, Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness (Ashgate, forthcoming 2011).  Offers the perspective of geographers.