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Intoxicating Spaces

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

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Posted on 2nd March 202111th March 2021

Tea: The Most Normal Thing in the World?

Pieternel Pompe, Pablo Kamsteeg, and Joska Berg
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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 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 (CC BY 4.0)

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