In our latest issue of #HistoricalResearch - 'Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–1900' by Dr Sarah Inskip and @DrAngelaMuir doi.org/10.1093/hisres… (OA)

🚨 We are recruiting for a part-time Project Archivist to develop the Alcoholics Anonymous Great Britain Archive here at the Borthwick. 18.5 hours per week, at university grade 6 (£35-£43k, adjusted for part time), with funding for at least 2 years. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/projec…

Had a good chuckle when I read the last line in Mr Seymour’s list of wares from the 1750s … and lots of coffee and tea equipment for Intoxicating Spaces. One of many cool finds this week amongst the Prize Papers Project at the The National Archives. #archives #maritimehistory #coffee #tea

Tobacco Club, a painting by Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century. Singerie — from the French for “Monkey Trick” — is a genre of art in which monkeys are depicted mimicking human behaviour. See our top pick of examples here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/th…

Industrial snuff: these giant pestle and mortars were designed to grind tobacco for snuffing, housed in ⁦Kelham Island Museum⁩ in Sheffield, from local snuff makers Wilson & Co. ⁦Intoxicating Spaces⁩ #tobaccohistory #snuff

For those who might be interested in reading the "coffee" part in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds, I have uploaded the whole chapter ☕️ "Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory Experiences" #twitterstorians academia.edu/97633020/Coffe… via Academia

2024 will be 70 years since Terry’s discontinued its ‘chocolate apple’ - the counterpart to its ‘chocolate orange’. I’m so curious to find out how it tasted. Come on Carambar, limited edition anniversary run!? 1/-

"the study of the city as a space can now be more fully understood by a more nuanced account of the city as a changing configuration of places or the urban as a process" #UrbanHistory50 bit.ly/3D4a1oY

Thank you all for this enthusiasm! Do you also know that my "History, Space and Place" is now available in #openaccess? routledge.com/History-Space-… #spatialhistory and also a chapter on #cities

Anchovy ice cream? Sign me up!🍦 I had a great time writing this piece for The Conversation about historical ice cream, leisure, and food in heritage properties. Whether the flavours are tantalising, or best left in the past, is up to you... theconversation.com/the-strange-hi…

Personally committed to bringing back the word 'cupshott' for 'verie nere drunk' 🍻 Gem from today's STAC archiving

My collection of weird intoxicating tales is almost a reality. Been checking galleys this week so nearly there. I hope you guys enjoy it. Will let @DrinkingStudies and A&D History know when it's out 🍷👻

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I've been chucking my recent clay pipe finds (#found #mudlarking on the #thames) into this glass box over the last few months. I tend not to take pictures of them on the #foreshore as I get lost in the moment - plucking them like flowers from the #mud. 1600s-1700s #claypipes

Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850" in which James Brown enters the architecture of intoxication — dram shops, gin halls, barbershops — exploring the spaces that catered to pleasure or evil, depending who you asked: publicdomainreview.org/essay/liquid-b…

Pill box of 19thc Edinburgh physician James Young Simpson, with medicines including morphine, opium, mercury and antimony

My book is officially out!!!! I can't believe I am putting my own book on my bookshelf 😭 'Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870-1914' McGill-Queen's University Press ✨You can get a cheeky 30% off with the code MQF2✨ mqup.ca/art--medicine-…

New project! Building on insights developed within Intoxicating Spaces, Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective is exploring artisan brewing and distilling in Sheffield with a wide range of partners. Find out more on the project's website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.u… 🍻🍸