At the Georgian table
A new book on the history of eating out in Georgian London is a beguiling and splendidly panoramic survey of…
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Wine in history: The wine-soaked wit of Lord Rochester
"The problem was that his wit flowed forth most brilliantly when he was in his cups, so that his friends…
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Wine in history: The Löbenstein-Löbel system
The story of the German medic who believed wine was one of the most effective weapons in the doctor's armoury.
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Revolution in a glass: Marx, Engels, and wine
The drinking lives of the original Champagne socialists.
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Return to the Near East
A history of wine that goes beyond the Eurocentric.
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Wine in history: Wine gluts
"Next to prohibition, the worst calamity that can happen to a wine economy is overproduction."
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Wine in history: Ways of seeing Dionysus
Stuart Walton explores the many and varied depictions of the god of wine through the history of art.
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Wine in history: St Scholastica’s Day Wine Riot
Bad wine had a lot to answer for in 14th-century Oxford.
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