Just a reminder that the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series closes this coming Monday, 10 November 2025. If you were considering applying, please do! We would love to hear from you. Submissions should be sent to our seminar convener at [email protected].

Great talk! Let us know what you'd like us to do next. We are free to join, like all @drinkingstudies.bsky.social groups and welcome new members.

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here: www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...

The IHR seminar series on 'Bad Habits' look fascinating this term, particularly for @drinkingstudies members as @jameskneale.bsky.social and David Beckingham are both giving talks on their temperance research. More information and sign up here: us8.campaign-archive.com?u=e075dbc3a1...

Many women in mid-life begin to question their relationship with alcohol. In our latest interview, Dr. Fiona Matley offers insight, compassion, and hope for those on this journey. You're not alone — support is out there. Watch now: manchesterwomentogether.org.uk/aaw2025/ #AlcoholAwarenessWeek

It's the first time in a long time that I've been at a conference for the duration, which is testament to how brilliant the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 anniversary event was! A lovely bonus to speak on two panels with the wonderful @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and @jendeavour.bsky.social 🙌

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

Really enjoying fascinating papers @bavs-uk.bsky.social this week. Looking forward to presenting on sources on women drinking for pleasure from @womenandalcohol.bsky.social project in a panel with the brilliant @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Graham Harding this afternoon. @dorotadias.bsky.social

Presented at my very first conference last week in sunny Dublin 🍀 From history to literature and arts, public health to psychology, we discussed women and alcohol. Loved hearing from so many different perspectives! 💭 Thanks @womenandalcohol.bsky.social for a fantastic event! 🌻

Lots to catch up on--David Clemis on 'the Moral Agency of Drunken Women in Early Modern English Law and Medicine', a clear and nuanced overview of changing ideas of women's drinking #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

I very much enjoyed the paper from Fionnula Simpson, on 'Female Drinkers and their Doctors in 19th-Century Irish Fiction'. Prescribed alcohol solidified doctors' professional authority & gave them access to women's bodies; women medicalized their own drinking #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

Second paper of this last panel is Lara Martin lengel on straight edge and drinking/sobriety. Underage punk bands and concert goers were marked on the back of their hands with black crosses to indicate they were too young to be served alcohol

Final panel of the #dangerouspleasurea conference is on women and temperance. First panel is a fascinating insight into the work on Seventeen magazine by Catherine Carstairs and Aidan Hughes giving advice to teenage girls about their own drinking and the drinking of other girls, boys & their parents

Next up on the defiant pleasures panel is @jameskneale.bsky.social talking about the story of Jane and William feast and how their trial fits with wider attitudes to drunkenness and temperance. Excited to see the cover of his forthcoming book due out later this year share.google/lFABuT8ekP2s...

After lunch panel for the #dangerouspleasures is on defant pleasures. Our host, Lucy Cogan, shares some very recent work on the glimpses of Irish women's drinking she has found in the 18th and early 19th C

What a gorgeous setting for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol #dangerouspleasures conference this week 🌸

Day 2 of the #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures conference begins with a session on Women and Alcohol in Midlife; three broadly public health papers, though wholly or partly qualitative, from Antonia Lyons and Kate Kersey (Auckland), Maree Patsouras (et al, LaTobe) and Madeline Rowe (LJMU)... 1/4

Great example of this are these two pictures she brought together to demonstrate this. Zoom in to see the similarities and differences

Second paper for the visualizing pleasures panel of #dangerouspleasures features one of our organisers, @dorotadias.bsky.social talking about how important it is to piece together different historical perspectives left to us by our predecessors to get a slightly more accurate picture

Panel two reflects on visualizing pleasures. Megan Bennett starts with a brilliant reading of the land lady in literary and visual cultures of 18C

Final paper of our first panel today is Madeline Rowe on women's relationship with alcohol in menopause. Some great reflectionon their feeling of menopause as a trap with few directions to eacape

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Second paper of our first panel is Maree Patourous joining us from Australia to talk about gender norms and alcohol use in Australian working mothers. #dangerouspleasures conference

Fascinating medicalised marketing for wine from New Zealand #dangerouspleasures

We kick off day 2 of the #dangerouspleasures conference for @womenandalcohol.bsky.social with a panel on women and alcohol in midlife. First paper is Antonia Lyons and Kate jersey on understandings of health and risk when drinking

Absolutely fabulous surroundings for day 1 of the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women & Alcohol - #dangerouspleasures conference. Thank-you to all the speakers for their interesting talks 👏👏👏

Paper 3 of panel 2 of our #dangerouspleasures conference . Useful reminder from Geoffrey Hunt that historians and anthropologists are slowly paying more attention to women's challenges to attempts to limit their drinking

Thanks to Sarah Fox at #dangerouspleasures conference for introducing me to these striking pictures by Penny Collier as part of her presentation on the theme of alcohol, izzat and me. Really encourage you to take a look here: pennycollier.com/alcohol-izza...

I was chairing the first panel so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that the papers by Vanessa Höving, Marta Ramón García, Katie Snow were all brilliant... here's Marta in our very fancy room at the Museum of Literature #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasures

Second paper on panel 2 of #dangerouspleasures conference is by Sarah Fox on her research with women in South Asian communities and alcohol use/help seeking

As ever Judith Boyle has some brilliant quotations to discuss. I love both of these. But particularly the idea about big coats. Reminds me of the queens of the north on drag race UK - coats are for shoplifting....

Panel 2 of #dangerouspleasures conference - our first paper is from Judith Boyle on the effects of the Irish equality act on public alcohol consumption

We're just about to begin the first day of 'Women and alcohol: dangerous pleasures?' at the Museum of Literature, Dublin, #womenandalcohol @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Third paper of our first panel of the #dangerouspleasures conference is Katie Snow on Somerville and Ross's In the Vine Country (1893) and their writing relationship

Next up for #dangerouspleasures Marta Ramon Garcia on where women drink in Victorian Ireland - thinking about secret drinking as the natural pursuit of pleasure as she navigates the various public arguments about this in the second half of the 19C

Great quotation from Biringer in Vanessa's talk - where does liberation fall for female drinkers?

Vanessa Hoving kicks off our first panel for this week's @womenandalcohol.bsky.social #dangerouspleasures conference talking about Eva Biringer's 'Independent' and reflects on alcohol, sobriety and feminity and the 'sobriety canon'

Our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social women and alcohol conference starts tomorrow in Dublin. We'll be talking about dangerous pleasures. Can't wait! #dangerouspleasures Here are two of our organisers the last time we were together in Buffalo last year.

Our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women & Alcohol seminar will feature @craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. More info here: www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...

Our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women & Alcohol seminar will feature @craigstafford.bsky.social talking about his newly contracted book on Female Offending & the Police Courts in Victorian Lancashire, online on 8 May at 12.00 UK time. Details here: www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/03/dsn-...

This is what a happy researcher looks like! Wandering through small villages and parish archives, preparing to write a book about women, alcohol and agency in 19th century Poland. @ncn.gov.pl @womenandalcohol.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Ow wow, what Valentine wouldn't want this, perfect give for 14th Feb (buy early for next year)

Great new article just out by two of our colleagues on the NCN funded women and alcohol project (www.womenandalcohol.net). @dorotadias.bsky.social and @craigstafford.bsky.social compare the policing of women's drinking in 19th Century Britain and Poland. Interesting similarities and differences

Some great seminars at centrevictorian.bsky.social‬ - those interested in @drinkingstudies.bsky.social might be especially interested in this hybrid seminar on the 12th March from Dr. Manon C. Williams:www.tickettailor.com/events/cssah...01

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