A Brief History Of Gin, Feminism and Despair

The London Gin Craze of the early 1700s and why ‘Mother’s Ruin’ nearly became a proto-feminist position

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Two of the greatest side effects of human patience were cheese and wine. A few hundred thousand years ago early hominids were disgusted to find the mammoth harvest had gone off. The milk turned into cheddar and all…