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

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Students should only be enrolled on this course with approval from the History Honours Programme Administrator. This research follows on from her Masters dissertation which concentrated on the history of dietary advice pertaining to sugar in the United States in the 20th century. Her main interests include the history of food and nutrition, in particular the ways in which diet has been perceived in health and disease throughout the 20th century.

Campbell went further to suggest that the failure to quantify moderate drinking was matched by a failure to stipulate which types of alcohol should be considered ‘moderate drinks’ that were beneficial to health. He believed that the quality and type of alcohol were key factors in determining its effects on human health. Campbell concluded that My father had a small bar in our house and I remember looking at the Sweetheart Stout bottles on the shelf. I can’t say she inspired me to become a Tennent’s girl, but I remember thinking it would make my dad proud if I was up there too, as he was involved in the licensed trade.”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 21 Foley’s argument highlights one of the main concerns about the marketing of tonic wines expressed by the 1914 Commission on Patent Medicines, which investigated the supposed endorsement of these products by the medical profession. The committee was acting upon ethical and moral concerns about the promotion of alcohol consumption for medical reasons. Dr Mary Sturge was called as an expert witness with professional experience on the effects of medicated wines. She was asked her opinion on why people buy tonic wine 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. Nicholls J. 2011 . The Politics of Alcohol: A History of the Drink Question in England: Manchester: Manchester University Press.

It would therefore appear that alcohol played an important role in the treatment of chronic diseases and palliative care. In another Scottish asylum, The Chrichton Royal, alcohol was sometimes used in the treatment of private patients—even those with existing alcohol problems. One patient admitted in 1886 suffering from eccentric and delusional behaviour was allowed generous amounts of alcohol. His case notes stated that Jennifer is a PhD candidate at Glasgow Caledonian University. She began her PhD in October 2016 on a studentship project exploring mental health in twentieth century Scotland. Her research compares the experiences of soldiers and civilians co-residing in Scottish district asylums, 1914-1934. She previously completed an MSc in Historical Studies with an emphasis on health histories at the University of Strathclyde.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 Rachel is a second year Wellcome Trust PhD student at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow supervised by Prof Matthew Smith. Her PhD thesis is entitled 'A Spoonful of Sugar: Dietary Advice and Diabetes in Britain and the US, 1946-2015' which uses oral history to trace the history of Type 2 diabetes, focusing in particular on patients' experiences and the dietary advice they have received throughout this period. Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox The rally will be held at 12.30pm on Buchanan Street Steps, Glasgow. A number of guest speakers are scheduled to make contributions including: Rachel has trained with the Scottish Oral History Centre and is now conducting oral history interviews across Scotland and the United States. Colin Moore

Dr Hands believes the can campaign was problematic in perpetuating sexist stereotypes, though she stresses that the models she spoke to shared with her fond memories of a bygone era of advertising. Iain earned his doctorate in Health History from the University of Strathclyde. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, he wrote the first medical history of acne. His thesis focussed particularly on the post war period when the escalating cultural and economic significance of adoescence made spotty skin a marketing opportunity for pharmaceutical companies, a professional opportunity for dermatologists and an issue that spurred popular debate about the causes of and treatments for acne. Unsurprisingly, using sex appeal to sell beer was a marketing goldmine during an age of massive gender inequality. It was a part of working-class drinking culture,” she says. “They were always brought out at key family celebrations at Hogmanay and Christmas.” Women were responsible for the weekly shopping so it was designed to appeal to them,” Dr Hands recalls. “It even featured recipes including beer on the can.”

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The rally will be attended by Unite members from Glasgow and Strathclyde universities who will march to the rally from their workplaces. The workers will be joined by other Unite members from the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University. Members from other trade unions including UCU, Unison and EIS-FELA will also join the march. 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 Yeomans, H. (2014), Alcohol and moral regulation: Public attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers There was another attempt to expand its market. Tennent’s unveiled its 1965 Housewives’ Choice campaign after the relaxation of off-licence laws saw a boost in at-home drinking in Scotland. Dr Sturge believed that the general public was duped into buying and consuming tonic wine because they were either unaware of the alcohol content or believed that alcohol acted as a medium for the delivery of medicinal agents in the drink. There was no legal compulsion for manufacturers to disclose the alcohol content or ingredients in tonic wine on product labelling or advertising and these products fell into the category of ‘secret remedies’, which the committee defined as proprietary medicines where the labelling contained very little information on the contents and the product advertising made false or misleading claims. It was known that companies like Coleman and Hall made huge profits from the sale of their tonic wines and the issue that the committee had to consider was whether the public would continue to buy these products if they displayed accurate information on the alcohol content and added ingredients. The manufacturers claimed that by disclosing this information, their products would face increased competition, which would in turn harm their businesses. The key question for the committee was whether product labelling was in the best interests of consumers

Kristin completed her MSc in Health History at the University of Strathclyde and has been awarded the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship award for her PhD on the history of contraception and abortion in Scotland c.1960 - 2000. She has an interest in the history of sex and medicine, pharmacy, psychiatry and oral history. Her thesis will consider the ways in which society, culture and medicine have shaped access to and attitudes towards contraception and abortion in Scotland during the second half of the twentieth century. Through the use of oral history, this project will uncover how women navigated the often-complicated world of reproductive healthcare in a new, medical age and explore how it impacted their lives. It will examine the shifting nature of the patient-practitioner relationship during this time, and the experiences of women who sought access to reproductive health facilities in Scotland.” Rachel Hewitt As part of my doctoral research into alcohol consumption in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain,... more As part of my doctoral research into alcohol consumption in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, I endeavoured to find historical sources that offer insights into the drinking habits and uses of alcohol among the majority of consumers. It was important to find sources that provided glimpses into ‘ordinary’ people’s drinking practices and attitudes towards alcohol consumption, as many of the historical sources such as parliamentary papers, offer a biased and moralistic ‘top down’ account of alcohol consumption. The use of oral history transcripts therefore offered a solution to this problem and provided an ideal opportunity to explore the social and cultural meanings of alcohol in the lives of consumers.

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Although the articles aimed to give a scientific analysis of the therapeutic value of wine, each instalment also provided information on sourcing the best vintages and brands. For example, an analysis of white Bordeaux wines used ‘an excellent Sauterne 1870 from The Cafe Royale’ to highlight the therapeutic qualities of that particular type of wine. 40 Another article in The Lancet in 1894 looked at the medical value of ‘tonic’ champagnes such as Laurent-Perrier Grand Vin Brut Champagne Sans Sucre and Coca Tonic Champagne Sans Sucre which were recommended for use in treating diabetic patients. Chemical analyses of both drinks concluded that they were palatable and of a similar quality to other ‘high class’ champagnes. 41 Although there was no medical consensus on the therapeutic value of alcohol as a generic drug there did seem to be some agreement that if alcohol were to be used, it should be of the best quality and type. This is hardly surprising, given that most doctors were middle-class men and many of their fee-paying patients were also middle and upper class. The range of illnesses that were financially treatable with a ‘sound claret’, coca champagne or a good quality brandy were therefore likely to be middle or upper-class illnesses such as fatigue, neurasthenia, exhaustion from overwork and digestive complaints. In this sense, doctors were only prescribing the types of alcoholic drinks that their patients would normally drink anyway, so in effect it was a prescription to drink well. But the appearance of model Ann Johansen beside the fountain in Trafalgar Square on cans in 1962 saw the drinks giant flooded with fan mail from overseas-based servicemen. Berridge V. 2013. Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of St Andrews before moving on to a masters degree at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests are disease history and bioethics. Tennent's launched a new can series roughly every three years with new models on the cans. There was a considerable difference between the photographs used on the British cans and those sold abroad.

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