The White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities is delighted to announce three fully-funded PhD studentships on ‘Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe’, starting in autumn 2014. One of the studentships, based here at Sheffield under the joint supervision of our PI Professor Phil Withington and Dr Tania Demetriou, focuses on ‘The Invention […]
24 Hour Port Book People: Reconstructing England’s Intoxicants Trade, 1580-1740
England’s traffic in intoxicants between 1580 and 1740, both domestic and international, can be best traced through port books. As such, me and my fellow Research Associate Tim Wales have spent the last six months – and will spend the next two – trawling through the relevant collection (E 190) at The National Archives for […]
Project Outreach Session: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze
The project did another bit of outreach on 2 April when I led a session on early modern intoxicants for Year 12 students during a University of Sheffield open day. Organised by Discover Arts and Humanities – a new initiative of the Outreach team and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities designed to introduce GCSE […]