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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our @markhailwood.bsky.social is in @lrb.co.uk with his latest book getting a great review: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Shot of a headline in the London Review of Books: 'Save My Beer' by Tom Johnson and details of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Alcohol related hospital statistics (Scotland financial year 2024 to 2025) | Public Health Scotland www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications...

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Latest NIQ stats for managed hospitality in December. Pubs performed well, bars and restaurants less so.

NIQ/RSM Hospitality Business Tracker, Dec 25 vs Dec 24
All outlets +6.2%, LFL +2.9%
Pubs +7.3%, LFL +5.1%
Restaurants +3.8%, LFL +0.8%
Bars +1.5%, LFL -1.7%

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"I could order cocktails but they ‘have to come from the bar next door’ and are left on the side rather than served to me, with customers presented with two separate bills" - ASH's Helen Duffy on the cigar lounges where you can still drink and smoke indoors: ash.org.uk/media-centre...

The ornate bowed frontage of James J Fox, cigar merchant, on London's Cigar Mile.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Latest issue of Drink & Drugs News: www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ddn-december...

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's almost here! Our online event organised with @britbeerwriters.bsky.social ft @professorpub.bsky.social @culturalclare.bsky.social @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and Dr Rob Deakin revealing their latest findings on the evolution of the pub. Get your ticket now: www.beerguild.co.uk/events/the-p...

Ad for 'The pub: evolving not dying?' with photos of speakers on the panel.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Workshop: Thinking About Drinking – Philosophical Contributions to Human-Alcohol Interaction | Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health cpemph.org/2025/02/10/w...

Detail from the Plague of Ashdod by Poussin.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Podcast: Prof Carol Emslie on gendered alcohol marketing: www.gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/uni...

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

March edition of DDN: www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ddn-march-20...

Cover of a magazine with colourful birds and the cover line 'Better Together: peer support and the strength of the flock.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

CFP (by Jan 25): Victorian studies of Ontario Spring Conference 2025 - Victorian Conviviality and Entertainments vsao.apps01.yorku.ca/spring-confe...

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

DSN Bristol Event: Hoppiness: Brewing in Care Homes (4 Dec, 4.00pm UK time). This event will be hybrid so you can join us in person (43 Woodland Road, G.10) or online (ask @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social for link). For more info about the project go to: hoppiness.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

How might a seasonal programme of activities all about growing hops, brewing, drinking and the cultural heritage of beer support the wellbeing and social connection of care home residents, including those living with dementia? And how might such activities challenge or disrupt dominant cultural representations of life in a care home? Researchers Karen Gray (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol) and Martin Preston (School for Education, University of Bristol) with horticultural therapist and activity leader Guy Manchester will share insights from their experience during the Hoppiness: Brewing in Care Homes project, along with emerging findings from observation and analysis. Hoppiness was a collaborative research project involving researchers at the University of Bristol and Alive Activities, a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for older people and their carers. It was funded by Brigstow Institute.

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Identities and Diveristy Cluster Seminar (4 Dec, 3pm, UK time) welcome Steven Taylor (UCD) and Victoria Ellis-Vowles (Lincoln). Details attached. To get the link and/or join the cluster email Samantha.wilkinson@mmu.ac.uk.

Seminar 3: Wednesday 4 December at 15:00 (GMT)

Steven Taylor, University College Dublin

““The drunken Irish”? A comparative analysis of Irish drinking in New York and London, 1950-1970”
The Irish have shaped New York’s drinking culture since the first Irish immigrants arrived in the 1820s. In the century that followed over 4.5 million Irish arrived in the city, equating to a quarter of the population. In the post-World War II decades New York City, alongside London, was the most common destination for Irish migrants. This history has resulted in there being more than 120 Irish pubs in New York today, St Patrick’s Day being the city’s biggest drinking day after New Year’s Eve, and a ubiquity of advertisements for Irish whiskey. Yet, unlike London in the post-war years, Irish drinking in New York City was never defined as problematic. Using a comparative approach to concerns about alcohol in the second half of the twentieth century, this paper explores the “drunken Irish” trope and its absence from the archival record in New York. Writing in 1976 the sociologist Richard Stivers argued that the Irish in America “cured themselves of their stereotype as drunkard by accepting it” and subsequently fulfilling the role of the happy drunk. Whereas in London, English prejudice towards Irish nationalism stressed the negative aspects of Irish drinking such as violence, lewd behaviour, and crime. While elements of Stiver’s argument are compelling, historical investigation reveals a parallel in concerns about drinking in London and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. The former blaming the Irish for increased drunkenness and the latter completely overlooking them, despite the culture of Irish drinking across the city. This paper addresses the commonalities and disparities across the two cities and aims to develop and challenge Stiver’s ideas to present a nuanced understanding of Irish drinking in the second half of the twentieth century.

Dr Victoria Ellis-Vowles, Universi…

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Drinking Studies Network (DSN) @drinkingstudies.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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