Getting High…in 1753 | The Gin Craze


‘In all history there’s never been a culture in the world that didn’t have some drug of some kind to lift people out of themselves.’

Poverty, war, terrifying religion and women experiencing liberation… Could so equally have written Getting High about the Gin craze era of the mid 1700s 🙂

In Our Time, brilliant, as ever:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zk6z