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An emotional journey through drink

David Jesudason’s relationship with alcohol is complicated. Here he explores how booze can shape our behaviour, describing how he’s matured from underage drinker to cask-ale connoisseur.

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When you don’t belong, you drink

In the third part of her exploration of belonging, Tanya Perdikou unpicks the addictions that have shaped her past and uncovers the connections that make recovery possible.

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Diagnosed bipolar, prescribed lithium

In the first part of a series looking into lithium, Laura Grace Simpkins recounts the beginning of her troubled relationship with this mysterious drug.

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The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism

Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.

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  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • Bar-chart indicating the effects of drinking alcoholic drinks on children's school results in Vienna. Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • A bottle of alcoholic drink with a red flag attached to it; advertising the danger of driving after drinking. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • Alcoholism in Russia: brawling and starvation as the results of drinking alcoholic drinks, contrasted with prosperity resulting from abstinence from alcohol. Colour lithograph by T. Nemkova, 1990.
  • A purse with a hole in it in the shape of a bottle of liquor; representing the expense of drinking alcoholic drinks. Colour lithograph after I. Tarasov, 1987.
  • Two men in bed on a Saturday night drinking from a bottle of alcohol. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
  • Two men in bed on a Saturday night drinking from a bottle of alcohol. Colour process print, ca. 1908.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • A wife asking her drunkard husband to hand over a bottle of alcoholic drink. Lithograph by B. Chavannaz, ca. 1920.
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