Last Orders: A Social History of Drinking

by History Today

Politicians fretting about the effects of our drinking habits on the nation’s health is nothing new. In this informative, entertaining and not-at-all sobering look at the social history of booze, you’ll read about the irresistible rise of gin in Georgian Britain, why wine supped in the Middle Ages would have horrified the modern palate and how women carved out their own space in the saloons of America.

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 30, 2012

About the author

History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and publishes articles of traditional narrative history alongside new research and historiography.

History Today generally commissions its articles directly from academic authors and historians, though it does accept unsolicited essays from freelance historians and others if the article is deemed to be serious history, of wide interest or of academic worth.