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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.

Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918) (2019)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2019). Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918). Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(8), 1434-1451. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419833024

This article considers the late-Victorian and Edwardian legislative treatment of problem drunkenness in Scotland under the 1898 Inebriates Act. It examines the uneven enactment of the law, by geography and gender, and exposes how mundane questions of... Read More about Bureaucracy, case geography and the governance of the inebriate in Scotland (1898–1918).

“The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front (2017)
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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.

Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow (2016)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2017). Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow. Social and Cultural Geography, 18(2), 117-136. doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1155733

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
Howell, P., & Beckingham, D. (2015). Time-geography, gentlemen, please: chronotopes of publand in Patrick Hamilton's London trilogy. Social and Cultural Geography, 16(8), 931-949. doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1040059

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
Beckingham, D. (2014). The press and the pledge: Father Theobald Mathew’s 1843 temperance tour of Britain. Historical Geography, 42,

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.