Our Knowledge Exchange and Impact Activities
In addition to developing traditional scholarly outputs, inspired by the mission and remit of our funders we designed and pursued our research questions with the help of a wide range of external partners from the public, private, and third sectors.
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Laura, kitchen coordinator at York Mansion House, demonstrates historical chocolate recipes for our UK pupils in November 2019.
NEW! Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective
This follow-on sister project, generously funded by the AHRC, will explore the relationship between craft brewing and craft distilling in Sheffield with local producers, communities, artists, heritage organisations, and the city council. It develops our central insight that psychoactive commodities are integral to the way urban spaces are perceived, controlled, and used, and that changes in the production, retailing, and consumption of fermented and distilled alcohols were just as transformative as new intoxicants.

Schools
We partnered with seven local schools across in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Under the guidance of our liaison history teachers, participating pupils developed projects, blog posts, and online exhibitions inspired by our sources and findings, enjoyed field trips to our partner museums and other heritage venues, and shared their work with their peers at a virtual schools conference:

Altes Gymnasium
Oldenburg, Germany

Gymnasium Neu Wulmstorf
Neu Wulmstorf, Germany

Cäcilienschule
Oldenburg, Germany

U-Talent School Network
Utrecht, Netherlands

Nacka Gymnasium
Nacka, Sweden

King Edward VII School
Sheffield, UK

Thomas Rotherham College
Rotherham, UK
Museums and Heritage Organisations

We also worked with nine museums, archives, and other heritage organisations from each of our four countries, with whom we co-produced field trips for participating school pupils, hosted PhD studentships and internships, organised public-facing workshops, and collaborated on innovative physical and virtual exhibitions (including our own):
- Amsterdam Time Machine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Deutsches Schifffahrtmuseum, Bremerhaven, Germany
- Nationaal Farmaceutisch Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Poppi Drugs Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Gemeente Amsterdam Stadsarchief, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- V&A, London, UK
- Wellcome Collection, London, UK
NGOs
We also shared our findings with, and gained perspectives from, two drug policy organisations, mainly in the context of a fast talk webinar on the theme of intoxicants, regulation, and public space:
- Mainline, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya