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The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850

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Month: October 2020

Posted on 31st October 202012th March 2021

Beer, Wine, and Spirits: Reflections on Intoxicants and Ghosts

This spooky season, while holed up in an isolated farmhouse in deepest North Yorkshire, I’ve been thinking about the connections between intoxicants and ghosts, which haven’t been fully explored in the extensive academic literatures around either topic, but which seem to be many and various.

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Posted on 16th October 202012th March 2021

The Normalisation of Coffee and XTC: Rituals and Similarities

Cathelijne van der Marel and Renate de Groot
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Intoxicating Spaces is a collaboration between Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany), the University of Sheffield (UK), Stockholm University (Sweden), and Utrecht University (Netherlands). We are funded by HERA, as part of its Joint Research Programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe, and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)

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Unless otherwise credited, all header, column, featured, and decorative images are from the Wellcome Collection, London (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

Recent Posts

  • ‘It Brought Much Slime Out of the Gutts and Made Me Cheerfull’: Defining Intoxicants in the Diary of Robert Hooke 5th March 2022
  • Getting to the Root of It: Saloop in Early Modern London 8th February 2022
  • Narcotic Letters: New Intoxicants in the Correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière 31st January 2022
  • Worlds of Opiates Webinar 6th January 2022
  • Swings and Syringes: Intoxication and Public Space 23rd December 2021
  • New Project Exhibition: Worlds of Opiates 20th December 2021
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