New FEAD videos: 'Under Control? Alcohol and Drug Regulation, Past and Present'

New FEAD videos are available from the recent "Under Control? Alcohol and Drug Regulation, Past and Present" conference, which took place in London on 21-23rd June 2013.  

'Under Control?' included presentations from a wide range of internationally renowned speakers exploring various aspects of alcohol and drug control. 

Presentations specific to alcohol included:

• James Kneale: Moderate drinking before the unit: Medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c. 1860-1930

• Thora Hands: Treating the mad, the bad and the drunk: Medical institutional responses to the problems of inebriety in Scotland c.1897-1914

• Stella Moss: 'Red biddy ruin': Methylated spirit consumption and the control of deviant drinking in interwar Britain

• Phil Mellows: The dialectic of drink: Alcohol and the neoliberal state

• Lauren Saxton: Motherhood, drink and nation: the female alcoholic in national context

• Lesley Smith: alcohol marketing and drinking behaviours John Greenaway: A Perennially awkward issue: The Labour Party and alcohol

• James Nicholls: What is the problem: Ideology, contingency, and evidence in recent UK alcohol policy

• Richard Robinson: High Spirits: The impact of tourists on alcohol's history in Brighton and Hanko

• John Foster: Drinking away from licensed premises (mostly at home): The link between risk and time

• Alan Latham: The common sense spatialities of liquor licensing: Regulating alcohol in New Zealand and the 1989 Sale of Liquor Act

• Adrian Barton: 'I don't really like the pub': Reflections on young people and pre-loading alcohol

• Steve Earnshaw: Drink dissolution: antibiography

FEAD videos were also recently released from the 2013 New Directions in the Study of Alcohol Group, covering expert presentations on the theme of 'alcohol and the family.