We’re pleased to announce an intoxicant-themed CFP for the Renaissance Society of America’s next Annual Conference, which will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 31 March−2 April 2016. Full details below; don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions or require further information. CFP: Intoxicants and Early Modernity This set of sessions welcomes papers […]
Project Paper: Intoxicants, Masculinity, and Clerical Sociability in England, 1680-1740
We’re excited to be sharing our first formal paper arising from Project research at the forthcoming conference Beyond the Coffee House: Masculinities and Social Spaces in the Long Eighteenth Century (QMUL, 5 June 2015). Drawing on our analysis of church court records from the dioceses of Norwich and Chester – which James discussed in this […]
‘Being One Night… Taking a Glass of Ale’: Intoxication in Church Court Records, 1580-1740
Our work on port books finished last summer – we’ve logged nearly 15,000 intoxicant-related transactions for the period 1580-1740 – and since then we’ve been busy working on manuscripts associated with our second research strand on intoxication and society: ecclesiastical court records. For the North West, I’m looking at a sample of around 2,000 cases from […]
Workshop Report: Material Cultures of Intoxication in Early Modern England and the Netherlands
Back in November, under the auspices of our fifth research strand, the V&A and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands jointly hosted an Anglo-Dutch Workshop and Reception around the topic of Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch. Background The inspiration for the workshop emerged […]
Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch
We’re excited to be organising a one-day workshop on Friday 28 November on ‘Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch’. Jointly hosted by the V&A and the Netherlands Embassy, and drawing on some of our initial findings in our material culture strand (especially derived from our […]
Three PhD Studentships: Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe
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 […]
Intoxicants and Early Modernity: The First Few Months
With our project and a New Year well underway the time seems ripe for a quick update. Since our formal start on the 1 October 2013 we’ve had a busy few months getting the research going, with most of the time spent developing and refining the data entry system for our first research strand on […]
