Thursday, September 18, 2014

Call for Papers: History Down the Pub

History Down the Pub is an academic seminar series, held in a Central London pub, discussing the history and archaeology of beer, brewing, pubs, drinking and other alcohol-related matters. We attempt to take a methodological perspective to the history of drinking, with speakers addressing as much how we know, the nature of our sources and the historical/archaeological methods applied to them, as what we know about our ancestors’ drinking habits.

We invite speakers for the 2014-15 seminar season on any aspect of this subject, from the archaeology of ancient brewing or wine-making and trade, or modern English (or other) brewing and pub history, and all topics in between. We shall attempt to alternate between ancient and modern topics throughout the year.

The first seminar, Harvey Quamen’s “Using Digital Humanities Techniques to Study the History of Beer and Brewing” was held in The Plough in August 2013. Further details of the series can be found at http://scienceforthirstypeople.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/HDtP

To offer a paper, please send a 300-500 word abstract to both Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk) and Lorna Richardson (l.richardson@ucl.ac.uk), or feel free to enquire informally to the same addresses.