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Articles on William Hogarth

September 9, 2025

Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th‑century London’s growing funeral trade

Dan O'Brien, University of Bath

Gin Lane is an imagined thoroughfare where the consumption of gin has deprived the inhabitants of sense, finances – and in some instances life.

July 23, 2025

Rebecca Anne Barr, University of Cambridge

A new reworking of Hogarth’s morality tale shows it continues to pack a punch on both sides of the Atlantic.

December 28, 2016

Carol Emslie, Glasgow Caledonian University; Chris Patterson, University of Glasgow, and Shona Hilton, University of Glasgow

How the news media distorts the reality of alcohol – new findings.

Chris Patterson
Research Assistant at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Shona Hilton
Deputy Director of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
Carol Emslie
Professor / Lead Substance use research group, Glasgow Caledonian University
Rebecca Anne Barr
Associate Professor in English Literature, University of Cambridge
Dan O'Brien
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath