Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… Image William Hogarth, ‘Gin Lane and Beer Street’, Royal Academy of Arts, 12/457 & 12/456, 1751. Image Charles Ansell, ‘Refreshment at St Giles's’, The British Museum, 1948,0315.6.36, 1789. … gin, was highly popular in the eighteenth century. The ‘Gin Craze’ swept through the poorer districts of London in particular, leading to widespread concern that its deleterious effects on the health of the labouring classes could …
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