The Politics Of Drink In England From Gladstone To Lloyd George

Author : DAVID M. FAHEY
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527578186

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The Politics of Drink in England, from Gladstone to Lloyd George by DAVID M. FAHEY Pdf

This book is about alcoholic drink, political parties, and pressure groups. From the 1870s into the 1920s, excessive drinking by urban workers frightened the major political parties. They all wanted to reduce the number of public houses. It was not easy to find a way that would satisfy temperance reformers, many of them prohibitionists, and the licensed drink trade. Brewers demanded compensation when pubs were closed, but temperance reformers were vehemently opposed to this. The book highlights a prolonged struggle of vested interests and ideologies in this regard, showing that a Royal in 1899 helped break the stalemate. In a controversial deal, brewers got compensation, but they had to pay for closing some of their own pubs. Later, during the First World War, the government experimented with an alternative to closing public houses, disinterested or non-commercial management, and considered State Purchase of the entire drink trade.

Author : David M. Fahey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527578838

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The Politics of Drink in England, from Gladstone to Lloyd George by David M. Fahey Pdf

This book is about alcoholic drink, political parties, and pressure groups. From the 1870s into the 1920s, excessive drinking by urban workers frightened the major political parties. They all wanted to reduce the number of public houses. It was not easy to find a way that would satisfy temperance reformers, many of them prohibitionists, and the licensed drink trade. Brewers demanded compensation when pubs were closed, but temperance reformers were vehemently opposed to this. The book highlights a prolonged struggle of vested interests and ideologies in this regard, showing that a Royal Commission in 1899 helped break the stalemate. In a controversial deal, brewers got compensation, but they had to pay for closing some of their own pubs. Later, during the First World War, the government experimented with an alternative to closing public houses, disinterested or non-commercial management, and considered State Purchase of the entire drink trade.

Author : J. Greenaway
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230510364

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Drink and British Politics Since 1830 by J. Greenaway Pdf

The issue of alcohol has never been far from British politics. Initially, governments needed to control its sale for public order reasons and because it was a major source of revenue. Then in Victorian times a powerful temperance movement arose which sought to prohibit or severely curb the 'Demon Drink'. This in turn aroused the hostility of the 'Trade' and the issue became one of fierce electoral politics. After 1890 drink was interpreted more as a social reform question and then in the First World War, after a major moral panic, far-reaching measures of direct state control were imposed in the interests of national efficiency. Later in the Twentieth century alcohol use came to be seen as an aspect of leisure and town planning and, more recently, as a health issue. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, John Greenaway uses the complex politics of the issue to shed light upon the changing political system and to test various theories of the policymaking process. Both historians and political scientists will be interested in this study.

Author : David M. Fahey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527504691

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Forgotten Temperance Reformers by David M. Fahey Pdf

This book is a collection of biographies of leaders in the temperance movement: Margaret Fison, Sir Thomas Whittaker, Arthur Sherwell, Jessie Forsyth and Guy Hayler. All five of the forgotten temperance reformers were prolific writers. Recovering the lives and works of these forgotten women and men enhances our understanding of the temperance movement. This book will be of special interest for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements, academics and researchers.

Author : David W. Gutzke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040033302

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The Mystique of Running the Public House in England by David W. Gutzke Pdf

This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century. Based on overlooked historical evidence, this volume examines over 400 interviews with candidates for public houses, unpublished evidence of royal commissions heard in secrecy, representations of publicans in fiction and film and systematic reading of 15 licensed victuallers’ newspapers. The Mystique of Running the Public House in England situates licensed victualling among upper-working- and lower-middle-class occupations in England and abroad. This book explores why aspiring but untrained individuals sought public house tenancies, notwithstanding high levels of turnovers and numerous bankruptcies among licensed victuallers. Encapsulated in any newcomer’s appraisal was the captivating vision of El Dorado, a nirvana which promised unimaginable wealth, high social status, respectability and social mobility as rewards for those limited in income but not in ambition. Despite the allure of El Dorado, the likelihood of publicans realizing their aspirations was quite as remote as that of fish and chip proprietors, Blackpool landladies and French café proprietors. This volume will be of great value to students and scholars alike interested in British History, Economic History and Social and Cultural History.

Author : Peter John Turnbull Morris,Peter Reed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190844257

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Henry Enfield Roscoe by Peter John Turnbull Morris,Peter Reed Pdf

Now largely forgotten, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. His contributions include transforming Owens College into Victoria University, now the University of Manchester, campaigning for the reform of technical education, serving as the Liberal MP for South Manchester, and cofounding the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine. In this detailed biography, authors Morris and Reed provide a timely and original contribution to the history of nineteenth-century British science and its relation to education, industry, and government policy, highlighting Roscoe's significant legacy as one of the leading scientists of his generation.

Author : Jerry Gaw
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621907640

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David Lloyd George by Jerry Gaw Pdf

"Unlike available biographies of David Lloyd George, Jerry Gaw's study focuses on the popular British statesman's religious convictions and his lifelong adherence to Churches of Christ doctrine. Gaw explores the way George applied Christian principles to the diplomatic and military crises he encountered beginning with his time in the British legislature. Gaw's interpretation of George is largely based on the latter's eleven diaries and more than 3,000 letters written to his brother from 1886-1943. These diaries and letters have been little explored by modern biographers of George. Gaw's deep analysis presents an entirely different perspective on David Lloyd George and explains, in part, how he came to the decisions now enshrined in the annals of political history"--

Author : David M. Fahey,Jon S. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216044307

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Alcohol and Drugs in North America [2 volumes] by David M. Fahey,Jon S. Miller Pdf

Alcohol and drugs play a significant role in society, regardless of socioeconomic class. This encyclopedia looks at the history of all drugs in North America, including alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and even chocolate and caffeinated drinks. This two-volume encyclopedia provides accessibly written coverage on a wide range of topics, covering substances ranging from whiskey to peyote as well as related topics such as Mexican drug trafficking and societal effects caused by specific drugs. The entries also supply an excellent overview of the history of temperance movements in Canada and the United States; trends in alcohol consumption, its production, and its role in the economy; as well as alcohol's and drugs' roles in shaping national discourse, the creation of organizations for treatment and study, and legal responses. This resource includes primary documents and a bibliography offering important books, articles, and Internet sources related to the topic.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141939193

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Hope and Glory by Peter Clarke Pdf

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing a century of national experience, Hope and Glory superbly conveys the diverse aspects of three generations who lived through unparalleled change.

Author : Jack S. Blocker Jr.,David M. Fahey,Ian R. Tyrrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576078341

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Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History [2 volumes] by Jack S. Blocker Jr.,David M. Fahey,Ian R. Tyrrell Pdf

A comprehensive encyclopedia on all aspects of the production, consumption, and social impact of alcohol. Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia spans the history of alcohol production and consumption from the development of distilled spirits and modern manufacturing and distribution methods to the present. Authoritative and unbiased, it brings together the work of hundreds of experts from a variety of disciplines with an emphasis on the extraordinary wealth of scholarship developed in the past several decades. Its nearly 500 alphabetically organized entries range beyond the principal alcoholic beverages and major producers and retailers to explore attitudes toward alcohol in various countries and religions, traditional drinking occasions and rituals, and images of drinking and temperance in art, painting, literature, and drama. Other entries describe international treaties and organizations related to alcohol production and distribution, global consumption patterns, and research and treatment institutions, as well as temperance, prohibition, and antiprohibitionist efforts worldwide.

Author : Patricia Lynch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191555107

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The Liberal Party in Rural England 1885-1910 by Patricia Lynch Pdf

This book explores the relationship between the British Liberal party and the rural working-class voters enfranchised by the Third Reform Act of 1884. In contrast to many works that present urban voters as the primary agents of political change in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, this study argues that an examination of the dynamics of popular rural politics is essential to a thorough understanding of political developments in the early years of mass enfranchisement. Prior to 1914, capturing a substantial portion of the rural vote was essential to any political party seeking to establish a strong Parliamentary majority; and the Liberal party, coming from a traditionally strong urban base, had to work particularly hard to meet the expectations of the new rural electorate. The book shows that popular political culture in the English countryside was dominated by two important, and sometimes conflicting, traditions: on the one hand, a history of radical social protest, emphasizing attacks on the privileges of landowning elites, and on the other, a widespread concern for the harmony of the local community, coupled with a suspicion of unnecessary divisiveness. The attempt to appeal simultaneously to both of these facets of rural political culture helps to explain not only why the Liberals continued to launch rhetorical attacks on the landed aristocracy and to promote schemes of land reform long after one might have expected them to have switched to a more 'modern' emphasis on class politics, but also why the 'New Liberal' emphasis on the politics of community carried such broad electoral appeal at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book suggests, finally, that in focusing primarily on urban democratization, historians of this period may have exaggerated the role of class allegiances in shaping popular political opinion and underestimated the continuities between 'Old' and 'New' Liberalism.

Author : Alan Sykes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317899051

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The Rise and Fall of British Liberalism by Alan Sykes Pdf

Here is the first book to cover the history of British Liberalism from its founding doctrines in the later eighteenth century to the final dissolution of the Liberal party into the Liberal Democrats in 1988. The Party dominated British politics for much of the later nineteenth-century, most notably under Gladstone, whose premierships spanned 1868-1894, and during the early twentieth, but after the resignation of Lloyd George in 1922 the Liberal Party never held office again. The decline of the Party remains a unique phenomenon in British politics and Alan Sykes illuminates its dramatic and peculiar circumstances in this comprehensive study.

Author : Henry Yeomans
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781447309932

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Alcohol and Moral Regulation by Henry Yeomans Pdf

Attitudes toward alcohol?and the extent and rate of its consumption?have undergone considerable changes over the centuries. In the face of contemporary concern with increased drinking, Alcohol and Moral Regulation offers a refreshing historical perspective, explaining that anxieties about alcohol are perhaps best understood as a ?hangover” from the Victorian period. Drawing on extensive historical research, the volume puts contemporary attitudes in context, and thus gives scholars and policy makers alike a more nuanced way to approach analyses of, and approaches to, contemporary drinking.

Author : I. Packer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230625440

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Liberal Government and Politics, 1905-15 by I. Packer Pdf

This book is an innovative appraisal of Edwardian Liberalism and the 1905-15 Liberal governments. Making extensive use of new archival research the volume identifies the major concerns of Liberals in the first two decades of the twentieth century and explores how policy-making was related to conflicting definitions of Liberal ideology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025473625

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf