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SUMMARY:Counting the Cost of Drink in Britain\, 1830-1918 - Speaker to be 
 confirmed
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DESCRIPTION:In debates about alcohol in Britain competing ideologies have 
 shaped how people have read the evidence available to them and indeed how 
 they have gone about collecting such evidence.  This conference examines t
 he construction and use of such evidence in the control of drinking and dr
 unkenness\, taking as its parameters the nineteenth-century and the regula
 tions of World War One. \n\nScholars working across the social sciences an
 d humanities are invited to address the connection between assessments of 
 the cost of drink – however defined – and attempts to shape policy at 
 local or national scales.  By so doing\, the conference will offer an impo
 rtant opportunity to consider the evidence base that has informed policy d
 evelopment on the drink question.  But it also aims to further our underst
 anding of what counted as evidence and whose evidence could be counted.  E
 xamples might include medical analyses\, police statistics\, brewery and t
 axation records\, insurance calculations\, and various religious and moral
  assessments that attempted to document the social costs of drinking and d
 runkenness. \n\nInterrogating how these costs were counted will help us un
 derstand the trajectory of past regulation as well as holding out the pote
 ntial for better historically-informed policy debates in the present.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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