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

    • 10th June 2016
    • Jobs & Studentships / Project Updates
    • 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 […]

    Three PhD Studentships: Cultures of Consumption in Early Modern Europe

    • 29th April 2014
    • Jobs & Studentships
    • James Brown

    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 […]

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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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    We're a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Department of History and HRI Digital at the University of Sheffield. We are generously supported by the ESRC and AHRC.

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    • Event Report: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present 30th May 2017
    • Intoxicants and Empire c.1600-1800: Space and Material Culture 17th April 2017
    • Project Event: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present 8th September 2016
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