Gin Glorious Gin

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How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London

Gin Glorious Gin is a history of London refracted through its most iconic drink - a social history with gin goggles. It is a factual narration that leads the reader through Restoration London via the Gin Craze, then in and around prohibition, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), and returning to the modern resurgence of class in a glass - the Ginaissance.

In and out of both legality and popularity - gin is the only drink to be simultaneously shorthand for metropolitan glamour and alcoholic squalor. It crosses paths with all professions and cuts through class - writers and artists, politicians and scientists, royalty - gin is a great leveller.

Gin Glorious Gin is funny, quirky, interesting, informative and full of famous names - Dickens to Churchill, Hogarth to Hemmingway - and unknown voices who impacted our wonderful capital city. It is bang up to date, and reflects our current and enduring love affair with gin - a speakeasy history with substance.

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