Intoxicating Spaces

Our virtual exhibition is now live! Imagined as a digital scrapbook, it brings together nearly 1,500 exhibits relating to new intoxicants in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm, 1600–1850. We hope you like it and find it useful! intoxicatingspaces.org/exhibition/ ☕️🌿🍫💊

New project! Building on insights developed within Intoxicating Spaces, Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective is exploring artisan brewing and distilling in Sheffield with a wide range of partners. Find out more on the project's website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.u… 🍻🍸

My book is officially out!!!! I can't believe I am putting my own book on my bookshelf 😭 'Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914' @McGillQueensUP ✨You can get a cheeky 30% off with the code MQF2✨ mqup.ca/art--medicine-…

Pill box of 19thc Edinburgh physician James Young Simpson, with medicines including morphine, opium, mercury and antimony

Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850" in which James Brown enters the architecture of intoxication — dram shops, gin halls, barbershops — exploring the spaces that catered to pleasure or evil, depending who you asked: publicdomainreview.org/essay/liquid-b…

I've been chucking my recent clay pipe finds (#found #mudlarking on the #thames) into this glass box over the last few months. I tend not to take pictures of them on the #foreshore as I get lost in the moment - plucking them like flowers from the #mud. 1600s-1700s #claypipes

My collection of weird intoxicating tales is almost a reality. Been checking galleys this week so nearly there. I hope you guys enjoy it. Will let @DrinkingStudies and @drughistory know when it's out 🍷👻

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Personally committed to bringing back the word 'cupshott' for 'verie nere drunk' 🍻 Gem from today's STAC archiving

Anchovy ice cream? Sign me up!🍦 I had a great time writing this piece for @ConversationUK about historical ice cream, leisure, and food in heritage properties. Whether the flavours are tantalising, or best left in the past, is up to you... theconversation.com/the-strange-hi…

@JulieLong18thC @alnthomas @UChicagoPress This looks quite wonderful!

Thank you all for this enthusiasm! Do you also know that my "History, Space and Place" is now available in #openaccess? routledge.com/History-Space-… #spatialhistory and also a chapter on #cities

"the study of the city as a space can now be more fully understood by a more nuanced account of the city as a changing configuration of places or the urban as a process" #UrbanHistory50 bit.ly/3D4a1oY

@JamesKneale @HauntedLscapes This looks amazing (both your paper and the conference)! Intoxicants and the supernatural definitely seem ripe for further investigation; there are some preliminary and inchoate thoughts on our blog: intoxicatingspaces.org/category/super… 🥃👻

2024 will be 70 years since Terry’s discontinued its ‘chocolate apple’ - the counterpart to its ‘chocolate orange’. I’m so curious to find out how it tasted. Come on @Carambar_France, limited edition anniversary run!? 1/-

For those who might be interested in reading the "coffee" part in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, I have uploaded the whole chapter ☕️ "Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences" #twitterstorians academia.edu/97633020/Coffe… via @academia

@GabyRobilliard @KelhamIsland Had no idea this was there! 🌿👃

Industrial snuff: these giant pestle and mortars were designed to grind tobacco for snuffing, housed in ⁦@KelhamIsland⁩ in Sheffield, from local snuff makers Wilson & Co. ⁦@intoxspaces⁩ #tobaccohistory #snuff

Tobacco Club, a painting by Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century. Singerie — from the French for “Monkey Trick” — is a genre of art in which monkeys are depicted mimicking human behaviour. See our top pick of examples here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/th…