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Intoxicating Spaces

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

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Month: December 2022

Posted on 21st December 20224th January 2023

Our Virtual Exhibition is Now Live!

Following a well-attended launch event last month, the project’s Virtual Exhibition is now live! Three years in the making, and conceived as a digital scrapbook, the exhibition brings together over 1,500 exhibits – or ‘scraps’ – from archives, libraries, and museums. All relate to the introduction, circulation, sale, enjoyment, and regulation of new intoxicants in sites and spaces across our case study cities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm. Designed to be used for research, teaching, or simply general interest, the exhibition provides an innovative and easy way to explore and compare the entangled histories of intoxicating spaces in the Baltic and North Seas. We hope you have as much fun using it as we had creating it, and do let us know what you think!

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Partners & Funding

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)

Multilingual Overviews

Brief introduction in Dutch Brief introduction in German Brief introduction in Swedish

Image Credits

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

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