Patrick Dillon

Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva (2002)

This is an entertaining look at the gin craze of the 1800s, which remains the greatest drug epidemic to ever hit the British Isles.In 1723 each man, woman and child in London was getting through something like a pint of gin a week.It was just after the South Sea Bubble burst, an age of gambling, ...