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Posted on 9th August 20249th August 2024

Introducing Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective

Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective is a new Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, fronted by Professor Phil Withington and Dr Nick Groat at the University of Sheffield. Setting out to explore how the emergence of ‘craft’ alcohol is understood, characterised, and defined, the project investigates how this new practice and form of production has influenced urban spaces.

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Intoxicating Spaces was a collaboration between Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany), the University of Sheffield (UK), Stockholm University (Sweden), and Utrecht University (Netherlands). We were 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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Brief introduction in Dutch Brief introduction in German Brief introduction in Swedish

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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)

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