Gin-ecdotes Liquid Bewitchment Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850 By James Brown Part 4 At the same time as gin was regaining momentum within these deluxe new venues, an organised temperance movement was starting to take shape. Spearheaded by coffee retailers, doctors, evangelicals, and industrialists, and animated by a fervent belief in the deleterious economic, medical, moral,... Continue Reading →