Stories
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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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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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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.
Catalogue
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Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Pictures
A man who runs a distillery and is an alcoholic initiates his son into drinking alcoholic beverages. Lithograph by Jaques, 192-.
Jaques, poster designer.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 659554i- Pictures
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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).
Limner, Luke, 1822-1912.Date: [1847]Reference: 35846i- Books
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Alcohol and the human body : an introduction to the study of the subject / by Sir Victor Horsley and Mary D. Sturge.
Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden, 1857-1916.Date: 1907- Pictures
A graph plotting new admissions of alcoholics to 23 Swiss lunatic asylums against the price of brandy, 1908-1928. Lithograph, ca. 1929.
Date: [1929?]Reference: 689465iPart of: Statistics on alcoholism in Switzerland.