In addition to our presentations, we’re organising a variety of workshops, seminars, public lectures, exhibits, and a large concluding conference. To get involved or stay informed, Follow Us on Twitter!
The BBC’s Lucie Skeaping leads a capacity crowd in renditions of seventeenth-century drinking songs at one of our popular ‘Jolly Good Ale and Old’ ballad evenings. © Being Human Festival (via Flickr).
8 December 2015 –
Permanent Display as part of the new Europe 1600–1800 Galleries, ‘Drink, Love, and Loyalty’, V&A
A curated exhibit of intoxicant-related artefacts selected from the holdings of the host museum.
Previous Events
21 April 2017
Workshop, Intoxicants and Empire c.1600-1800: Space and Material Culture, V&A
This workshop, the first instalment of two events to be held over two consecutive years at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Beinecke Library at Yale University, will explore the spaces and material cultures of intoxicants and intoxication in the transatlantic and south Asian worlds.
30 September – 1 October 2016
Workshop, Intoxication, Discourse, and Practice, University of Sheffield
Our flagship event will provide a showcase for project findings and outputs – including our database – and a forum for related work on alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, opium across the disciplines and across time and space.
10 October 2016
Conference and Musical Reception, Intoxicants and Politics: Past and Present, Palace of Westminster
This combined conference and concert event will bring historical research on the topic of intoxicants, regulation, and policy to the heart of government.
27 June 2016
Jolly Good Ale and Old, The Strand, London
Our popular evening of drink, history, and song bringing early modern music and drinking culture to the masses.
19 May 2016
Jolly Good Ale and Old, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, London
Our popular evening of drink, history, and song bringing early modern music and drinking culture to the masses.
21 March 2016
Panel on ‘Leaf Encounter: Tobacco in Early Modern England’, Social History Society 40th Annual Conference, University of Lancaster
1 April 2016
Three Panels on Intoxicants and Early Modernity, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston
A showcase of some of the latest intoxicant-related work being conducted on both sides of the Atlantic.
24 November 2015
Jolly Good Ale and Old, The Sheffield Tap
Our popular evening of drink, history, and song bringing early modern music and drinking culture to the masses.
20 November 2015
Sources Workshop 4, University of Sheffield
This workshop explored the opportunities and methodological challenges of probate inventories.
28 November 2014
Workshop, Material Cultures of Intoxication: Trade, Taste, and Exchange between the Early Modern English and the Dutch, V&A/Dutch Embassy
A one-day event exploring economic, social, and cultural exchange between the Netherlands and England by focussing on intoxicants and the social and material cultures implicit in their manufacture and consumption.
24 October 2014
Book Launch, V&A
Drinks reception celebrating the publication of Cultures of Intoxication, a Past & Present supplement edited by our PI Phil Withington and our Co-I Angela McShane.
6 June 2014
Sources Workshop 3, Norfolk Record Office
This workshop explored the opportunities and methodological challenges of quarter sessions records, guild documents, and churchwardens’ accounts.
16 December 2013
Sources Workshop 2, Chester Archives and Local Studies
This workshop explored the opportunities and methodological challenges of church court depositions and city records.
18 October 2013
Sources Workshop 1, The National Archives
This workshop explored the opportunities and methodological challenges of port books.