David Fahey wrote:

> Any suggestions? 
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Jason Kelly <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> *Date: *October 17, 2005 6:40:45 PM EDT
>> *To: *[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> *Subject: **drinking songs*
>> *Reply-To: *H-Net List for British and Irish History 
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>> From: Stuart Semmel <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Subject: drinking songs
>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:33:10 -0400
>>
>> A friend in French history has asked me to forward the following  
>> question
>> to the collective wisdom of H-Albion:
>>
>> I'm doing a research project with my class on drinking in the  eighteenth
>> century.  We're looking at published texts of drinking  songs [I 
>> assume he
>> means British ones!] but need some context.  Who  sang these songs?  Did
>> they sing them in pubs, taverns, at home, at  outdoor gardens?  Were they
>> class-specific?  Do you know of any work  on pubs or drinking or drinking
>> songs?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>>
>> Stuart Semmel
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of History
>> University of Delaware
>> Newark, DE 19716
>>
>> from September 2005 to May 2006:
>> National Humanities Center
>> 7 Alexander Drive
>> P. O. Box 12256
>> Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256
>>
>
See the article by David Ingle, "English Songs, Representations of 
Drinking in (1600-1900)," in _Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: 
An International Encyclopedia_, ed. J. Blocker, D. Fahey, and I. 
Tyrrell, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, and Oxford, UK: 
ABC-Clio, 2003), 1: 218-225.

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Jack Blocker
History, Huron University College
University of Western Ontario
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