{"id":149,"date":"2021-11-11T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/?p=149"},"modified":"2021-11-11T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:07:01","slug":"alcohol-empire-dan-snow-i-have-a-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol &#038; Empire: Dan Snow &#038; I have a chat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In October, I was delighted to appear as a guest on Dan Snow&#8217;s History Hit podcast, discussing the relationship between alcohol and colonialism across time, which you can listen to below. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/c939f8d1-c4bc-478e-8bb9-e5343f9a7ab5\/f680d723-6ca6-4e7c-9a70-eabfabaa6409\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The title of the episode is a little misleading, as our discussion ranged beyond the British Empire, touching on how alcohol featured in economic, political and socio-cultural relations between Indigenous societies and different colonising powers around the world from the sixteenth century up to the twentieth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the podcast explored different themes that are covered in more depth in my recently published book, <em>Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War, 1850-1950<\/em>, which Dan was beyond gracious to say had &#8220;blown his mind&#8221;. Wowsers, and thank you! It inspired me to put together a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeborahToner\/status\/1450469316139311111\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeborahToner\/status\/1450469316139311111\">thread on twitter<\/a>, in which I outlined the acknowledgements page that <em>would <\/em>have been in the book, if I had managed to notice that it wasn&#8217;t there through several copy-editing and proofing stages&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alcohol-book-image.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover, black and white image of a busy bar, c. 1940s London, slightly blurred. Title Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire and War, edited by Deborah Toner. Bloomsbury\" class=\"wp-image-140\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alcohol-book-image.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alcohol-book-image-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption>You can get your hands on a copy via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/alcohol-in-the-age-of-industry-empire-and-war-9781472569820\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/alcohol-in-the-age-of-industry-empire-and-war-9781472569820\/\">Bloomsbury<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing the podcast was a really fun experience; Dan is a very engaging host and asks great questions. You can catch more episodes of History Hit, which are published on a close to daily basis, over on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/dansnowshistoryhit\/howalcoholbuiltthebritishempire\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/dansnowshistoryhit\/howalcoholbuiltthebritishempire\">acast<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, I was delighted to appear as a guest on Dan Snow&#8217;s History Hit podcast, discussing the relationship between alcohol and colonialism across time, which you can listen to below. The title of the episode is a little misleading, as our discussion ranged beyond the British Empire, touching on how alcohol featured in economic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/?p=149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alcohol &#038; Empire: Dan Snow &#038; I have a chat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15,2],"tags":[4,41,40,8],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dissemination-and-engagement","category-publications","category-research-update","tag-alcohol-history","tag-colonialism","tag-empire","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcoholhistory.le.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}