gin craze
London's liquor epidemic
The gin craze was a period in early 18th-century England when cheap, unregulated gin flooded London, causing widespread public drunkenness and social upheaval.
The term now applies to any epidemic of alcohol abuse or, more loosely, to sudden manias for anything: The city's craft cocktail scene sparked a minor gin craze.
- LondonEngland's capital city
- eighteenth centuryYears 1701-1800
- juniperAromatic berry-bearing conifer
- dead drunkExtremely intoxicated state
- cheapLow in price
drunkenness · slums · lower classes · poverty · distilleries · vice · debauchery · taverns · epidemic · morality · workhouses · crime · social reform · parliament · spirits · addiction · squalor · licensing
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- queen anne eraQueen Anne, wingback chair, highboy, lowboy, japanning
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, Elizabethan era, English Civil War, Tudor era
- tavernstavern keeper, taverns, tavern sign, tavern wench, inns
gin crazewine culture
Social practices surrounding vintages
tea culture · coffeehouse culture · coffee house culture · beer culture · moderate drinking
gin crazetemperance movement
Campaign against alcohol consumption
prohibition · teetotalism · Eighteenth Amendment · moral reform · WCTU
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