Mother's Ruin
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"e;Mother's Ruin - The epidemic that made London drunk for fifty years"e; chronicles the London Gin Craze of the early 18th century. When the government allowed unlicensed gin production to hurt the French wine trade, pint of gin became cheaper than a pint of beer. The result was catastrophic. Historian Charles Jack details the social collapse depicted in William Hogarth's famous print Gin Lane....
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"e;Mother's Ruin - The epidemic that made London drunk for fifty years"e; chronicles the London Gin Craze of the early 18th century. When the government allowed unlicensed gin production to hurt the French wine trade, pint of gin became cheaper than a pint of beer. The result was catastrophic. Historian Charles Jack details the social collapse depicted in William Hogarth's famous print Gin Lane....
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