Dillon, Patrick books

Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth Century Gin Craze

There was a loud bang and some smoke, and then Westminster Hall was filled with fluttering sheets of paper. It happened between one and two o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon, and the hall was crowded. In 1736, the Courts of Chancery and King’s Bench and the Court of Common Pleas all sat there, in ...