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Showing posts with label Lloyd George. Show all posts
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

The 1909 People's Budget

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Funny how I see everything through beer glasses. Or at least spectacles. It colours the way I think about Lloyg George's 1909 "Pe...
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Monday, 19 November 2012

The License-holders' Burden

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We've heard about the reaction of drinkers to the huge increase in the tax on beer at the beginning of WW I. Now it's time to hear t...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Scheming teetotal bastards

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Bunch of lying scum. That's how I'd describe the British temperance movement in the early decades of the 20th-century. They also w...
Friday, 1 April 2011

Propaganda war

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The temperance killjoys didn't have it all their own. The brewing trade weren't shy of publishing their own propaganda. I'm wond...
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