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The interior and exterior of a working brewhouse. Engraving, c. 1747.

South Africa: Zulu women brewing beer. Coloured lithograph by G.F. Angas, 1849.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.

A drunkard sits on a barrel spilling drink from a jug and glass. Etching by R. Blyth after P. J. de Loutherbourg.

Two women are arguing in the street at Seven Dials in London watched by a crowd. Etching by George Cruikshank.

A multiple-choice question about the harmful effects of beer advertising a quiz on alcohol abuse. Colour lithograph by Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, 2000.

"Blind Granny" holding a tankard of beer. Coloured engraving.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Twenty-ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

Brewing

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 8.

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Twenty-ninth annual report of the county and city of Worcester Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

Brewing

Zosimi Panopolitani De zythorum confectione fragmentum nunc primum graece ac latine editum : accedit historia zythorum sive cerevisiarum quarum apud veteres mentio fit / scripsit D. Christianus Gottfridus Gruner.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 9.

Alcohol industry ephemera. Box 8.