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

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Category: Ghosts

Posted on 31st October 20205th November 2020

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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The ruin of Sheffield's most haunted pub Ye Old Harrow, photographed by the author, and scared figures in an eighteenth-century etching from the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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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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