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 … metropolitan poor especially in London – or at least the moral panic surrounding it - can be classed as a concept. King William III is credited with introducing the taste for the Dutch spirit – genever - when he ascended to the throne of … 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 campaign against the Craze which precipitated the Act of 1751 provide part of an answer to both …
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