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Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.

Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

Bovril : those who go down to the sea in ships have perhaps more need for Bovril than any other class of men / [Bovril Limited].

Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.

An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

A well attended meeting of "total abstainers" in the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Wood engraving, c. 1854, after G. Cruikshank.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients seated at a drunken dinner table and two bedridden patients with some meagre chips. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

Independent Order of Rechabites : the abstainers' Friendly Society ... : [Calendar] 1938.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.

Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.

A profile of a man interpreted by Lavater to be indolent, idle, and a drunkard. Drawing, c. 1789.

The dreadful character of a drunkard, or, The odious and beastly sin of drunkenness described and condemned : shewing the fearful judgments that have befallen notorious drunkards : with brief  exhortations to persuade men from that swinish and abominable sin.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

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Temperance

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Works from the collections

The dreadful character of a drunkard, or, The odious and beastly sin of drunkenness described and condemned : shewing the fearful judgments that have befallen notorious drunkards : with brief exhortations to persuade men from that swinish and abominable sin.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

Temperance

Images from the collections

Images about Temperance

Works from the collections

The dreadful character of a drunkard, or, The odious and beastly sin of drunkenness described and condemned : shewing the fearful judgments that have befallen notorious drunkards : with brief exhortations to persuade men from that swinish and abominable sin.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

An examination of the essays Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus / by John MacLean.

Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).

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