Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard

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People drank for many different reasons and these reasons ranged across social class, gender, and region. Eva completed a bachelor’s degree in History and Spanish at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She was a recipient of a 2016-2017 Fulbright Student Research Award, which funded a master’s degree in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. She is currently enrolled at the University of Strathclyde as a first year PhD student in History.Her PhD comprises part of Professor James Mills Wellcome Trust Award Investigation ‘The Asian Cocaine Crisis: Pharmaceuticals, Consumers and Control in South & East Asia c1900-1945’. Her research focuses on the consumption of psychoactive substances in the colonial Philippines during the first half of the twentieth century.Her research interests include public policy and substate nationalism, early modern and modern colonial history in the Americas and Asia, and drugs history and politics. Jasmine Wood Through her research she discovered that although the models were often covered up on the front of cans for the home market, those sold to British servicemen stationed abroad showed a very different side to the cans. June Lake, now 59, features on the lager cans between 1986 and 1988. She told the Daily Express : “Everyone was in awe of Venetia Stevenson because she was really the first lager lovely.

Venetia Stevenson was born in London in 1938, to a film director father and an actress mother. She was voted the most photogenic girl in the world in a magazine poll in 1957, just one year before her Sweetheart Stout cans were unveiled. Some of the 'Lager Lovelies' (Image: Glasgow Women's Library/Thora Hands) She became the face of Sweetheart Stout in 1958, inspiring the Lovelies, with Tennent’s acquiring the brand through a merger with Caledonian Breweries in the 1960s. Students should only be enrolled on this course with approval from the History Honours Programme Administrator. The historian stated that she is still looking to interview more people about their experiences with the cans, she added: "I would like to talk to anyone who remembers the cans either from childhood, when they were growing up or if they were in the armed forces stationed abroad in the 1970s and 80s.Mr H has resided at Kirkmichael House all winter and has had shooting all the season. He has been fairly contented as long as he had unlimited meal and drink. His appetite was enormous and at a meal he has been known to eat a leg of mutton with the usual accessories…and finish off with half a dozen eggs…he has been allowed three glasses of whisky daily and as much beer as he chose to drink. He usually took the whisky undiluted. 28 Think and work in an interdisciplinary manner, where necessary bringing in concepts and methodologies from outside Economic History and even from disciplines other than History. Mary has been a University of Strathclyde student since 2014, completing a bachelor’s degree in history in 2018 and a MSc in health history in 2019. She has been granted a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship to research her project: Animals and Allergy in Historical Perspective: Test Subjects, Pets and Patients, 1900 – Present. This research will explore the use of animals as test subjects for early allergy experiments, animals as a potent source of allergy and the growing incidence of atopic diseases in animals. This project employs published and oral history sources as well as archival research in Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum, the National Academy of Medicine in Paris and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in Wisconsin. Her thesis aims to inform ongoing research into the epidemiology of allergy, our current understanding of atopic conditions and our evolving relationship with companion animals. Rachel Meach Georgia is also conducting oral history interviews for the NHS at 70 project, aiming to document a wide variety of experiences with the NHS throughout the UK, in commemoration with the seventieth anniversary of its foundation. Kristin Hay Yeomans, H. (2014), Alcohol and moral regulation: Public attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers

https://athousandflowers.net/2018/02/11/govanhill-how-a-square-mile-of-glasgow-was-weaponised-by-the-right/ Reading List 1. Thora Hands (2018), Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard To the medically uneducated public [meat and malt wines] undoubtedly seem a most promising combination: extract of meat for food, extract of malt to aid digestion, port wine to make blood – surely the very thing to strengthen all who are weak and to hasten the restoration of convalescents. Unfortunately, what the advertisements say – that this stuff is largely prescribed by medical men – is not wholly true. 42 Graph 9.1: Glasgow Royal Infirmary alcohol expenditure from 1871 to 1914. The dates shown are those in which expenditure on alcohol was listed in the annual reports 21Although he had reservations about the validity of the claims made by the temperance groups, Macfie remained concerned that prescribing alcohol could bring the profession into disrepute because a prescription to drink could be risky—not only in terms of ethics but also in the damage it might do to professional reputation. Yet others were concerned about the implications of reducing or stopping the use of alcohol in medicine. In an article in the British Medical Journal in 1890, one doctor (who remained anonymous) highlighted the differences in alcohol use between workhouses and general hospitals Nicholls J. 2011 . The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England: Manchester: Manchester University Press.