Alcohol consumption is frequently described as a contemporary, worsening and peculiarly
British social problem that requires radical remedial regulation. Informed by historical …

Academics studying the British temperance movement tend to regard it as having had little
effect. This article reframes the question of impact by drawing on the separation, inherent in …

In this highly topical resource, the first ever on binge drinking, the authors look at the UK and
its alcohol problem, and review the role of alcohol in Britain in the past 1500 years. Binge …

This review surveys recent developments in the historiography of the politics of alcohol in
twentieth-century Britain. The 'drink question'has undergone a set of tumultuous shifts …

In 1925, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote that he saw 'only two planks of the
historic Liberal platform [as] still seaworthy–the Drink Question and Free Trade'. 1 This …

This paper examines the popular reaction to the implementation of licensing reforms in
England and Wales in 2005. It characterises these events as an episode of moral panic and …

Alcohol consumption in 21st-century Britain is of significant interest to government, media
and academics. Some have referred to a 'new culture of intoxication'or 'calculated …

The cultural and historical background of the substantial deregulation of alcohol sales in
Australia in the last quarter century is described and discussed. Drinking and intoxication …

Much academic work has argued that alcohol policy in England over the past 25 years can
be characterised as neoliberal, particularly in regard to the night-time economy and attempts …

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and
the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This …