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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… respected publican.’ 4 They encouraged drinkers to linger over their pints by serving food and providing pipes and newspapers, while gin shops only sold liquor. 4 . Lee Jackson, ‘The Gin Palace; or, The Abodes of Suicide’, in Palaces of … Lane , there are groups of people pouring gin down each other’s throats and a pair of schoolgirls drinking together. The newspapers reported accounts of casual sexual liaisons between people who met in gin shops. In 1736, for example, Read’s …
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… adjuncts of male Jacobin clubs. They initially tended to be less political, circumscribing their activities to reading newspapers and preparing revolutionary festivals. When they did become political, such as the Société des citoyennes …
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