Stories
- 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.
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
Dying to be in nature
The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.
Catalogue
- Journals
Alcohol and Temperance History Group newsletter.
Date: [1980-1983]- Books
Temperance : its history and impact on current and future alcohol policy / Virginia Berridge.
Berridge, Virginia.Date: 2005- Books
The Temperance Education Society records / by K. Austin Kerr.
Kerr, K. Austin (Kathel Austin)Date: 1988- Journals
Alcohol in history.
- Books
- Online
Nineteen centuries of drink in England : a history / by Richard Valpy French.
French, Richard Valpy.Date: [1890]