How were the images created, were they meant to be for private viewing or public spaces, and what might their purposes have been? Anonymous hordes of poor, often homeless people wandered the city drinking away their sorrows, and often their clothes, as they readily exchanged their garments for the spirit. The gin-seller found a window in alleyway that was nowhere near the building’s front door. Just in time for the new craze – tea. It was anyone’s, and that was its danger: a danger that in the popular imagination was easily transmuted into spontaneous female combustion. Over time, reason and revelation found a new balance in the Church in England, while Voltaire and Thomas Paine explored the ideas further, leading to their re-emergence in the French and American Revolutions.With Richard SerjeantsonFellow and Lecturer in History at Trinity College, CambridgeKatie EastLecturer in History at Newcastle UniversityAnd Thomas AhnertProfessor of Intellectual History at the University of EdinburghProducer: Simon Tillotson, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Rejected by all humans who see him, the monster takes his revenge on Frankenstein, killing those dear to him. The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories Magazine, Inspiring oddities from mass public nudity to a mechanical gin-selling cat, the craze for gin swept across London and much of England during the first half of the 18th century. Although Lawrence started as an archaeologist in the Middle East, when World War I broke out he joined the British army and became an intelligence officer. His name and rank are spelled out alongside: Alcvinvs abba, ‘Alcuin the abbot’. In the 19th Century, it was assumed that only humans could have made these, as Neanderthals would have lacked the skills or imagination, but new tests suggest otherwise.
He left to be abbot at Marmoutier, Tours, where the monks were developing the Carolingian script that influenced the Roman typeface. It made an immediate impact as it overturned the social conventions of the time and it drew on her own early marriage to an older man, Casimir Dudevant.
As Hogarth indicated in his print 'Beer Street and Gin Lane' (1751) in support of the Gin Act, the damage was severe, and addiction to gin was blamed for much of the crime in cities such as London.
This was in Indiana (1832), which had the main character breaking away from her unhappy marriage. Or, at least, that was the theory. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before reaching Western Europe where, in the 17th century, coffee houses were becoming established. Lawrence (1888 – 1935), better known as Lawrence of Arabia, a topic drawn from over 1200 suggestions for our Listener Week 2019. Writing for History Extra, Mark Forsyth, author of A Short History of Drunkenness, explores the history behind this alcoholic spirit. So, while the stories don’t stand up scientifically, a society that believes such stories is very good for those who stand to inherit the victim’s fortune. He also appeared in a recent episode of the History Extra podcast, listen here. This was the moralising and serious counterpart to the great Gin Craze that swept London and much of England in the first half of the 18th century and produced (aside from the ignited ladies) mass public nudity, burning babies, and a mechanical gin-selling cat. After half a century of catastrophic gin consumption, by 1757, it had almost disappeared. And into this chaos it’s almost unsurprising that a mechanical cat should make an entry.
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You have successfully linked your account! Thanks! Our best wishes for a productive day. There were none of the social constraints of a village where everybody knew everybody’s business. In a programme first broadcast in December 2016, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the craze for gin in Britain in the mid-18th century and the attempts to control it. Mark Forsyth is the author of A Short History of Drunkenness: How, why, where and when humankind has got merry from the Stone Age to the present (Viking, November 2017). There were only two other towns in England with populations of 20,000.
After the war he was dismayed by the peace settlement and felt that the British had broken an assurance that Sharif Hussein would lead a new Arab kingdom. The gin-buyer would approach and say to the cat: “Puss, give me two pennyworth of gin,” and then place the coins in the cat’s mouth. There, caffeinated customers stayed awake for longer and were more animated, and this helped to spread ideas and influence culture.
With the arrival of William of Orange, it became an act of loyalty to drink Protestant, Dutch gin rather than Catholic brandy, and changes in tariffs made everyday beer less affordable. Bonus and ad-free content available with Stitcher Premium.
He left to be abbot at Marmoutier, Tours, where the monks were developing the Carolingian script that influenced the Roman typeface. It made an immediate impact as it overturned the social conventions of the time and it drew on her own early marriage to an older man, Casimir Dudevant.
As Hogarth indicated in his print 'Beer Street and Gin Lane' (1751) in support of the Gin Act, the damage was severe, and addiction to gin was blamed for much of the crime in cities such as London.
This was in Indiana (1832), which had the main character breaking away from her unhappy marriage. Or, at least, that was the theory. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before reaching Western Europe where, in the 17th century, coffee houses were becoming established. Lawrence (1888 – 1935), better known as Lawrence of Arabia, a topic drawn from over 1200 suggestions for our Listener Week 2019. Writing for History Extra, Mark Forsyth, author of A Short History of Drunkenness, explores the history behind this alcoholic spirit. So, while the stories don’t stand up scientifically, a society that believes such stories is very good for those who stand to inherit the victim’s fortune. He also appeared in a recent episode of the History Extra podcast, listen here. This was the moralising and serious counterpart to the great Gin Craze that swept London and much of England in the first half of the 18th century and produced (aside from the ignited ladies) mass public nudity, burning babies, and a mechanical gin-selling cat. After half a century of catastrophic gin consumption, by 1757, it had almost disappeared. And into this chaos it’s almost unsurprising that a mechanical cat should make an entry.
Every age and every society is different. You will shortly receive a receipt for your purchase via email.
You have successfully linked your account! Thanks! Our best wishes for a productive day. There were none of the social constraints of a village where everybody knew everybody’s business. In a programme first broadcast in December 2016, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the craze for gin in Britain in the mid-18th century and the attempts to control it. Mark Forsyth is the author of A Short History of Drunkenness: How, why, where and when humankind has got merry from the Stone Age to the present (Viking, November 2017). There were only two other towns in England with populations of 20,000.
After the war he was dismayed by the peace settlement and felt that the British had broken an assurance that Sharif Hussein would lead a new Arab kingdom. The gin-buyer would approach and say to the cat: “Puss, give me two pennyworth of gin,” and then place the coins in the cat’s mouth. There, caffeinated customers stayed awake for longer and were more animated, and this helped to spread ideas and influence culture.
With the arrival of William of Orange, it became an act of loyalty to drink Protestant, Dutch gin rather than Catholic brandy, and changes in tariffs made everyday beer less affordable. Bonus and ad-free content available with Stitcher Premium.