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    Month: June 2016

    All Things Considered: Intoxicants in Probate Inventories, 1580-1740

    • 10th June 2016
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    • James Brown

    Since completing our work on governance late last year, between January and April we’ve been hard at work on the source type related to our fourth and final work package on the material culture of intoxication: probate inventories. Ably assisted by project intern Muriel Munguia (who shares some thoughts below), we’ve databased a total of […]

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    A research team investigating the importance of intoxicants and intoxication to the economic, social, political, material, and cultural life of England between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

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    • Event Report: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present 30th May 2017
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