The Licensed City
Author: David Beckingham
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1781384185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn nineteenth-century Britain few cities could rival Liverpool for recorded drunkenness. The Licensed City examines the city’s reputation, the shifting definition and regulation of problem drinking, and the pivotal role played by social reform, targeted through alcohol licensing, in reshaping Liverpool’s dismal record.