Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… revenue). The British have always had a reputation as heavy drinkers so why was gin different? And how is it related to sociability? Beer Street and Gin Lane , the iconic pair of engravings published by William Hogarth as part of the … counter to a transient socially mixed clientele. Beer, on the other hand, was sold in inns, taverns or alehouses where sociability and social hierarchy were enshrined in the architecture. Alehouses were the simplest, catering for the poor. … went on in the workplace thus in group contexts. 5 . Karen Harvey, ‘Punchbowls’, The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century. https://www.digitens.org/en/notices/punch-bowls.html Ironically, much of the …
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