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Great to see James Kneale on #WDYTYA talking about #Temperance Life Insurance.

Don't forget that the Salvation Army had its own Insurance Society. That's right, The Salvation Army Assurance Society (formerly The Salvation Army Life Assurance Society). archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archive… James did once explain to us the different between Assurance and Insurance... 🤔

Dr Vicky Holmes FRHistS and I are thrilled to announce that our book Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain from 1700 is now complete and with Bloomsbury. This is the first-ever edited collection devoted to the material culture of poverty and features many brilliant contributors.

We want to hear from you: How does yesterday's opinion from the appellate court affect your reading or research? What does it mean to you that 500,000+ books are no longer available for lending? Please share your story ➡️ forms.gle/JgwWLxhvKgAZdV… #LetReadersRead

Shouting IT'S ALL DRINK HISTORY OR TEMPERANCE HISTORY at the telly #whodoyouthinkyouare

Vice-Chancellor Kapur's total annual declared renumeration for 2022-23 was £414,000 Way more than PM & Cabinet Ministers Way, way more than £34,963, the median earnings for employees in UK Who could possibly accuse VCs of being "so out of touch and clueless"? #academia

Time to go, ⁦Lord (Eric) Pickles⁩. Retweet if you agree. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

11 months of this and as long as it takes

Share widely + join the first event of a PolGRG seminar series: 'Student solidarities with Palestine'. We have wonderful speakers involved in student encampments in Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK incl. Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 // @[email protected] Ellie Armon Azoulay, PhD, #UCU @joharame forms.gle/TNEmvdiG9Ewnvu…

A reminder that we have an exciting event with Professor Noxolo on Monday 16th Sep! Tickets available for in-person or to join online. All welcome! The event will be chaired by JMS Steering Board Chair Farai Chipato of UofGGES 🌍

🚨 Associate Professor James Kneale joined Melanie C / Mel C on @bbc's Who Do You Think You Are? to explore her ancestor's involvement in temperance and reform. 📜📺 James tells us about his experience working with the former Spice Girl. #UCLGeography #HistoricalResearch

Coming out in paperback on 29th Oct, and now dedicated to our late friend and co-editor, Trevor Burnard.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159557/

SCOOP: Brown-Forman execs suddenly and quietly pulled a well-known promo of the co's founder in 2023. It was a doctored photo of white liquor baron George Garvin Brown, superimposed on Black abolitionist/teetotaler Frederick Douglass: fingers.email/p/a-whiskey-gi…

In the wake of the Palestine solidarity encampment at Lancaster University, management has singled out one -inspirational - student for disciplinary measures. We stand with Joe. No repression of protest! No withholding of degrees! Please sign urgently! change.org/p/lancaster-un…

Arriving today!🥳 Sooo excited to see my book The Boom & The Boom out in this world! On the cover it's when Miéville's slake-moth landed in the e-waste dump in Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide. See the link for details: peterlang.com/document/13407…

Spammed by someone pretending to be 5pence, as if I would ever pay any attention to that 😆

We lost our twitter account to the birth date tech issue so we are rebuilding. We have managed to get our old handle back but lost all our followers and old tweets so please bear with us, re-follow, and send us your interesting drinking news and events.

170 years after the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54, enjoy some new Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire research on the dispute which inspired Dickens and Gaskell, from Michael Sanders , Robert Poole, Janet Greenlees, Simon Rennie , Máirtín Ó Catháin, Lewis Darwen , Jack Southern, Sarah Ann Kennedy & me