Horrible History England
Terry Derry Martin Brown
One part of this book talks about how back in 1742 about 5 million English people were drinking 20 gallons of gin every year. In the 1870s a Russian visitor was shocked by what he saw in an English pub... Everyone is drunk but unhappy and gloomy and strangely silent. Only swearing and the odd bloody fight breaks the silence. Everyone is in a hurry to drink till they are senseless. The wives drink as much as the husbands and they all got drunk together while children crawl and run about among them.
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