Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Belonging and why we long for it
Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.
Catalogue
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Rum maniacs : alcoholic insanity in the early American Republic / Matthew Warner Osborn.
Osborn, Matthew WarnerDate: 2014- Pictures
An alcoholic during the Gorbachev Prohibition period drinking three household products simultaneously for their alcohol content. Colour lithograph after V. K︠︡iunnap, ca. 1987.
Ki︠u︡nnap, Vladislav Iogannesovich, 1923-Date: [1987?]Reference: 656918i
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An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 29036i- Books
Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature / Thomas B. Gilmore.
Gilmore, Thomas B.Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Swedish wine and spirits museums / by Geoffrey J. Giles.
Giles, Geoffrey J.Date: 1989