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. Image Carington Bowles, ‘The Gin Shop Displayed’, The British Museum, 2010,7081.1087, 1766-1784. Résumé The juniper-flavoured spirit, gin, was highly popular in the eighteenth century. The ‘Gin Craze’ swept through the poorer districts of London in …
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