Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… a quick dram of gin and then speedily exit at the other. The Times reported on 14 December 1829 that ‘a correspondent states, that he watched one shop in Holborn, of great business, and saw, on average, six individuals enter per minute, …
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