Outputs

Academic Publications

S. Snelders, ‘Normalisation and Ambivalence: Tobacco in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, Cultural and Social History (2021).
K. James & P. Withington, ‘Introduction to Intoxicants and Early Modern European Globalization’, The Historical Journal (2021): 1–11.
P. Withington, ‘Addiction, Intoxicants, and the Humoral Body’, The Historical Journal (2021).
P. Withington, ‘Pre-Modern Citizenship: An Ancient Concept for the Modern World’, The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 17 (2020): 79–89.
S. Snelders, ‘Drugsgebruik, exces en criminaliteit: Een historisch perspectief’, Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit 1 (2020).
P. Withington, ‘Journal of a Plague Year’, The Lancet 395 (2020): 1754–5.
P. Withington, ‘Where Was the Coffee in Early Modern England?’, The Journal of Modern History 92 (2020): 40–75.
P. Withington, ‘Intoxicants and the Invention of ‘Consumption”, The Economic History Review 73 (2020): 384–408.
H. Hodacs, ‘Coffee and Coffee Surrogates in Sweden: A Local, Global, and Material History’, in H. Weiss (ed.), Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks, and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (Oldenburg, 2020), pp. 73–94.
H. Hodacs, ‘Keeping It in the Family: The Swedish East India Company and the Irvine Family, 1731–1770’, Journal of World History 31 (2020): 567–95.
L. Müller, ‘Swedish East India Trade in a Value-Added Analysis, c.1730–1800’, Scandinavian Economic History Review.
L. Müller, ‘Svenska ostindiska kompaniet och den europeiska marknaden för te’, Sverige och svenskarna i den ostindiska handeln 2: Strategier, sammanhang och situationer (Stockholm, 2019), pp. 237–61.

Online Exhibitions

Kakao, Kaffee, Tabak: Rauschmittel Früher. A digital resource created by school pupils from Cäcilienschule and Altes Gymnasium in Oldenburg.

Public History, Interviews, and Press

22 June 2022: J. Brown, Interview, ‘The Focus’, Radio Adelaide.
21 June 2021: G. Robilliard, ‘Zucker, Tabak, Kaffee, Tee und… Pest: Rauchshmittel under der öffentliche Raum in Hamburg’, kulturland oldenburg 188 (2.2021).
13 May 2021: J. Brown, ‘How the Bubonic Plague Changed Drinking Habits’, The Conversation.
22 April 2021: K. Frieling, ‘Von Zucker bis Opium’, Eppendorfer 2 (2021): 3.
16 April 2021: ‘Rauschmittel in Hafenstädten – neue Ausstellung in Bremerhaven’, Radio Bremen.
13 February 2021: S. Schubert, ‘Intoxicating Spaces’: Auf den Spuren historischer Rauschmittel’, Nordwest Zeitung.
31 December 2020: I. Sorge-Röder, ‘Vom Siegeszug des Kaffees’, University of Oldenburg.
18 November 2020: J. Brown, Interview, ‘The Global Exchange of Medicine and Disease’, Sick to Death: A History of Medicine in 10 Objects.
10 November 2020: J. Brown, ‘Tweeting Renaissance Research’, Society for Renaissance Studies: Public Engagement Toolbox.
13 August 2020: P. Withington, ‘The History of Drinking, Intoxication, and Social Spaces’, A Bit Lit.
9 & 10 July 2020: J. Brown, Interview, ‘Local World’, Abbey 104 & Keep 106.
26 June 2020: J. Brown, ‘Coronavirus is Taking English Pubs Back in Time’, The Conversation.
4 June 2020: M. Bridge, ‘Coffee House Patrons of Old Preferred Stronger Stuff’, and leading article, ‘Grounds for Debate’, The Times.
29 May 2020: P. Withington, ‘Public and Private Pleasures’, History Today.
30 November 2019: T. Hysky, ‘Projekt ‘Intoxicating Spaces’. Als Kaffee und Zucker noch Rauschmittel waren’, Nordwest-Zeitung Online.
17 October 2019: D. R. Urbaschek, ‘Hoe veranderde Nederland door de komst van koffie?’, DUB.
25 September 2019: P. Withington, Discussant, ‘Addicted’, BBC Radio 4.
28 July 2019: S. Snelders, ‘Hoe kijken we over honderd jaar naar de strijd tegen drugs?’, Het Parool.
7 July 2019: S. Snelders, Discussant, ‘Drugs’, Radio Swammerdam.
See also the team’s posts over on our Blog.

Papers, Presentations, and Talks

6 October 2021: P. Withington, Discussant, Global Histories of Drugs: Why, and What Next (British Library/University of Wisconsin-Madison/Online).
6 July 2021: P. Withington, ‘The Intoxicating Spaces Knowledge Exchange Programme’, Workshop Paper, Rethinking Knowledge Exchange Within the Humanities (HERA).
18 June 2021: P. Withington, ‘Intoxicants, Addiction, and the Humoral Body, Conference Paper, Experiencing the Material Body in Early Modern Europe (Stockholm University).
3 June 2021: J. Brown, ‘Tea Gardens and New Intoxicants in Early Modern London’, Conference Paper, IEHCA Sixth International Conference on Food History and Food Studies.
25 May 2021: J. Brown, ‘The Intoxicating Spaces Digital Exhibition, or: Scrapbooking in a Time of Plague’, Workshop Paper, Exploring New Digital Worlds: Field Research Challenges in Pandemic Time (HERA).
27 April 2021: P. Withington, ‘Intoxicants, Addiction, and Early Modern Medicine’, Seminar Paper, Topics in Early Modern Studies.
15 April 2021: K. Sennefelt, ‘Comfort and Cure: Using Old and New Intoxicants in Seventeenth-Century Plague Epidemics’, Conference Paper, RSA Virtual 2021.
15 April 2021: J. Brown & G. Robilliard, ‘Plague, Intoxicants, and Space in Early Modern Port Cities’, Conference Paper, RSA Virtual 2021.
15 April 2021: S. Snelders, ‘Plague Epidemics and the Economy of Intoxicants in Early Modern Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm’, Conference Paper, RSA Virtual 2021.
15 December 2020: J. Brown, ‘Intoxicants and the Psychological Impact of Plague in Early Modern London’, Seminar Paper, Department of History Research Seminar (University of Sheffield).
3 November 2020: L. Müller, H. Hodacs, & A. Knutsson, ‘Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850’, Seminar Paper, Centre for Business History Seminar (Uppsala University).
24 September 2020: H. Hodacs, ‘Coffee and Tea Substitutes in Early Modern Sweden’, Seminar Paper, Department of History of Science and Ideas Seminar (Uppsala University).
10 June 2020: P. Withington, ‘Pre-Modern Citizenship: An Ancient Concept for the Modern World?’, Seminar Paper, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Seminar (University of Sheffield).
15 May 2020: G. Robilliard, ‘Und jenseits des Kaffeehauses? Eine Suche nach der ‘anderen’ Räumlichkeit von Kaffee und Tee in Hamburg, 1700–1850′, Seminar Paper, Prize Papers Lunchtime Talk (University of Oldenburg).
11 February 2020: S. Snelders, ‘The Normalisation of Drugs: A Historical Perspective’, Invited Lecture (Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam).
8 February 2020: P. Withington, ‘Tobacco and Playhouses in Renaissance London: New Intoxicants, New Pleasures’, Conference Paper, Cultures of Intoxication: Contextualising Alcohol and Drug Use, Past and Present (University College Dublin).
8 February 2020: S. Snelders, ‘The Introduction of New Intoxicants and the Problem of Excess: Tea and Tobacco in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, Conference Paper, Cultures of Intoxication: Contextualising Alcohol and Drug Use, Past and Present (University College Dublin).
6 February 2020: P. Withington, ‘Tobacco and Playhouses in Renaissance London: New Intoxicants, New Pleasures’, Workshop Paper, Pleasurescapes: Transnational Forces of Integration in European Cities (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
19 December 2019: J. Brown, ‘Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850’, Seminar Paper, Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies Seminar (University of Sheffield).
9 December 2019: T. Pieters, ‘Morpheus Gatekeepers: The Blessing and Burden of Doctors’ and Pharmacists’ Role as Narcotic Distributors’, Workshop Paper, Beyond the Medicines/Drugs Dichotomy: Historical Perspectives on Good and Evil (University of Johannesburg).
9 December 2019: P. Withington, ‘New Intoxicants and Early Modern Medical Practice’, Workshop Paper, Beyond the Medicines/Drugs Dichotomy: Historical Perspectives on Good and Evil (University of Johannesburg).
21 November 2019: P. Withington, ‘Slavery and Practical Humanism’, Seminar Paper, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar (University of Chicago).
15 November 2019: P. Withington, ‘The Invention of Addiction’, Conference Paper, North American Conference of British Studies (University of Vancouver).
7 November 2019: P. Withington, ‘The Power of Company’, Workshop Paper, The Edge of Politics (University of Lille).
26–27 October 2019: P. Withington, ‘Embodied Fictions’, Conference Paper, Façade Truths in Tokugawa Japan and Beyond (Yale University).
19–21 September 2019: P. Withington, ‘Urban Citizens’, Workshop Paper, Political Personhood in the Early Modern British World Before 1800 (Folger Shakespeare Library).
11 September 2019: G. Robilliard, ‘Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850’, Poster, HERA JRP Uses of the Past & Public Spaces Conference (Gdansk, Poland).
4 July 2019: P. Withington, ‘The Power of Sociability’, Keynote Lecture, Sociability in Early Modern Europe (University of Birmingham).