All Outputs (8)

Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930 (2024)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2024). Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930. Journal of Historical Geography, 84, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2024.03.012

This article uses the records the Manvers and Portland estates in Nottinghamshire and north-east Derbyshire to consider the provision and management of licensed premises between the 1860s and 1930s. Using archival materials of land agents and solicit... Read More about Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930.

Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury (2024)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D., & Watkins, C. (2024). Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury. Rural History, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793324000013

This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on... Read More about Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury.

Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain (2021)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2021). Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain. Journal of Victorian Culture, 26(3), 419-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcab008

This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different... Read More about Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain.

“The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front (2017)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2017). “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front. Geoforum, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.015

This article considers how licensing law conceives and practices jurisdiction. It examines the limits of attempts to define and exploit jurisdiction in the regulation of social problems connected to alcohol. Using the case study of a prohibition on t... Read More about “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front.

The Licensed City: Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920 (2017)
Book
Beckingham, D. (2017). The Licensed City: Regulating Drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920. Liverpool University Press

Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed... Read More about Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow.

Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy (2015)
Journal Article

This paper considers the time and the place of drinking in modern British life, as represented in Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of novels set in the publand of London’s West End in the interwar years, and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronot... Read More about Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy.

The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain (2014)
Journal Article

This article examines Father Theobald Mathew’s temperance tour of Britain in 1843. Estimates vary, but by this point some 6 million people in Ireland may have made a personal pledge to abstain from consuming alcohol. This pledge involved more than... Read More about The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain.