Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… in the architecture. Alehouses were the simplest, catering for the poor. Inns and taverns also accommodated social elites but they had different kinds of rooms for different kinds of customers. Crucially, customers were served in their … Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830 (London & New York: Longman, 1983). In the 1820s, social elites and law enforcers were put in a further panic by the development of a much more luxurious style of gin shop, …
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