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The Science Temperance Text-Book
First published in 1869, The Science Temperance Text-Book is a seminal work on the science of alcoholism and the temperance movement. The book explores the physical, mental, and social effects of alcohol consumption, drawing on the latest scientific research of the time. Author Frederic Richard Lees argues that alcoholism is a disease that can be cured through education and self-control, and advocates for the widespread adoption of temperance policies and programs. The book was widely influential in its time, and played a significant role in shaping public attitudes towards alcohol and addiction. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowle...
Temperance Societies in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
By studying the temperance societies that flourished in late Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window through which we can view middle-class and working-class society. Such societies provided the backbone for temperance both as a social movement and a political lobby. Most temperance societies became aligned with the Liberal Party in support of prohibition by Local Veto. A few allowed members to drink, but most were committed to total abstinence. There were organizations of middle-class men, of workingmen and their wives, of women, and of children and youth. The largest adult society was affiliated with the Church of England, but most societies were identified with Nonconformist denominations.
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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the Covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place. As immobility is forced upon us, at least for the immediate future, we have the chance to reflect. Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine presents opportunities to approach a text as a scholar differently. We break with the traditional academic ‘rules’ by inserting ourselves into the narrative and foregrounding the personal, subjective elements of literary scholarship. Each contributor critiques an historical description of a place about which, simultaneously, they write a personal account.
