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Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social · 7d

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here:

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Online seminar - Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914

Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 7d

The IHR seminar series on 'Bad Habits' look fascinating this term, particularly for @drinkingstudies members as @jameskneale.bsky.social and David Beckingham are both giving talks on their temperance research. More information and sign up here:
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London Group of Historical Geographers - Autumn Seminar Programme

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Manchester Women together @mwomentogether.bsky.social · Jul 7

Many women in mid-life begin to question their relationship with alcohol. In our latest interview, Dr. Fiona Matley offers insight, compassion, and hope for those on this journey. You're not alone — support is out there. Watch now:
manchesterwomentogether.org.uk/aaw2025/
#AlcoholAwarenessWeek

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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's the first time in a long time that I've been at a conference for the duration, which is testament to how brilliant the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 anniversary event was! A lovely bonus to speak on two panels with the wonderful @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and @jendeavour.bsky.social 🙌

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jul 26

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jul 24

Really enjoying fascinating papers @bavs-uk.bsky.social this week. Looking forward to presenting on sources on women drinking for pleasure from @womenandalcohol.bsky.social project in a panel with the brilliant @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Graham Harding this afternoon. @dorotadias.bsky.social

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Madeline Rowe @madelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 24

Presented at my very first conference last week in sunny Dublin 🍀

From history to literature and arts, public health to psychology, we discussed women and alcohol. Loved hearing from so many different perspectives! 💭

Thanks @womenandalcohol.bsky.social for a fantastic event! 🌻

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Jun 19

Lots to catch up on--David Clemis on 'the Moral Agency of Drunken Women in Early Modern English Law and Medicine', a clear and nuanced overview of changing ideas of women's drinking
#womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Jun 19

I very much enjoyed the paper from Fionnula Simpson, on 'Female Drinkers and their Doctors in 19th-Century Irish Fiction'. Prescribed alcohol solidified doctors' professional authority & gave them access to women's bodies; women medicalized their own drinking
#womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Second paper of this last panel is Lara Martin lengel on straight edge and drinking/sobriety. Underage punk bands and concert goers were marked on the back of their hands with black crosses to indicate they were too young to be served alcohol

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Final panel of the #dangerouspleasurea conference is on women and temperance. First panel is a fascinating insight into the work on Seventeen magazine by Catherine Carstairs and Aidan Hughes giving advice to teenage girls about their own drinking and the drinking of other girls, boys & their parents

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Next up on the defiant pleasures panel is @jameskneale.bsky.social talking about the story of Jane and William feast and how their trial fits with wider attitudes to drunkenness and temperance. Excited to see the cover of his forthcoming book due out later this year share.google/lFABuT8ekP2s...

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

After lunch panel for the #dangerouspleasures is on defant pleasures. Our host, Lucy Cogan, shares some very recent work on the glimpses of Irish women's drinking she has found in the 18th and early 19th C

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Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social · Jun 19

What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸

Maeve bunchy quote sign 'it was peaceful there and unfamiliar. Not like almost every square inch of Dublin'

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Jun 20

Day 2 of the #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures conference begins with a session on Women and Alcohol in Midlife; three broadly public health papers, though wholly or partly qualitative, from Antonia Lyons and Kate Kersey (Auckland), Maree Patsouras (et al, LaTobe) and Madeline Rowe (LJMU)... 1/4

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Great example of this are these two pictures she brought together to demonstrate this. Zoom in to see the similarities and differences

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Second paper for the visualizing pleasures panel of #dangerouspleasures features one of our organisers, @dorotadias.bsky.social talking about how important it is to piece together different historical perspectives left to us by our predecessors to get a slightly more accurate picture

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Panel two reflects on visualizing pleasures. Megan Bennett starts with a brilliant reading of the land lady in literary and visual cultures of 18C

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Final paper of our first panel today is Madeline Rowe on women's relationship with alcohol in menopause. Some great reflectionon their feeling of menopause as a trap with few directions to eacape

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Oops forgot to add the photo

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Second paper of our first panel is Maree Patourous joining us from Australia to talk about gender norms and alcohol use in Australian working mothers. #dangerouspleasures conference

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Fascinating medicalised marketing for wine from New Zealand #dangerouspleasures

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

We kick off day 2 of the #dangerouspleasures conference for @womenandalcohol.bsky.social with a panel on women and alcohol in midlife. First paper is Antonia Lyons and Kate jersey on understandings of health and risk when drinking

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The Sober Women Project @soberwomen.bsky.social · Jun 20

Absolutely fabulous surroundings for day 1 of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Women & Alcohol - #dangerouspleasures conference.
Thank-you to all the speakers for their interesting talks 👏👏👏

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 19

Paper 3 of panel 2 of our #dangerouspleasures conference . Useful reminder from Geoffrey Hunt that historians and anthropologists are slowly paying more attention to women's challenges to attempts to limit their drinking

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