Peter Hession, review of Bradley Kadel, Drink and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the Alcohol Trade and the Politics of the Irish Public House (2015), in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33/1 (Spring 2019): 153-55.
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French wine (review)
Graham Harding, review of Rod Phillips, French Wine: A History (2016), in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33/1 (Spring 2019): 151-53.
Prohibition and the rise of the American state (review)
Lisa Jacobson, review of Lisa McGirr, The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the rise of the American State (2016), in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33/1 (Spring 2019): 148-50.
20th cent. public house (review)
David Beckingham, review of Jessica Boak and Ray Bailey, 20th Century Pub: from Beer House to Booze Bunker (2017), in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33/1 (Spring 2019): 145-47.
14 pints a day for 16th cent. Irish stonemasons
Susan Flavin discovered that in the mid-16th century Irish stonemasons drank an enormous amount of beer. Their 14 pints was double that of most other people.
“Retrieved documents dating back to January 1565 revealed that stonemasons employed at a quarry in Clontarf, North Dublin, were given an allowance of 14 pints of ale per day.”
US-Afghan relations, 1940s-1970s (article)
Daniel Weimer, “‘It’s that Difficult of a Terrain’: Opium, Development, and Territoriality in US-Afghan Relations, 1940s-1970s,” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33/1 (Spring 2019): 113-44.
